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Fas latter is derived from  fasianus (φασιανός, ‘a bird from the Phasis in Colchis’), ‘pheasant,’ whence also  fagiano,  faisan.   ,, ‘carnival,’ from vaschanc, , ‘Shrovetide’; how it is connected with  (Shrove-Tuesday) has not yet been explained.  ,, ‘to talk irrationally,’ only in , a derivative of fasôn, ‘to track, seek here and there’; but the latter word is probably not from the root fas in.  ,, ‘fibre, filament,’ from late vaser, , ‘fringe,’ most frequently vase, , , ‘fibre, fringe, border,’  faso, , fasa, ;  fœs, ,  fasil, ‘fringe.’   , see.  ,, ‘to hold, grasp, comprehend,’ ‘to make up one's mind,’ from  vaȥȥen,  faȥȥôn, ‘to handle, seize, load, pack, arm oneself, dress, go’; it seems to be a combination of two or more really different roots. fǫt,, ‘garments’ ( *fata, ‘garments,’ may be deduced from  hato,  fato, ‘stock of clothes, wardrobe’); the West  fat (see ), has not this meaning, but   vaȥȥen, ‘to dress oneself, points that way. In the sense ‘to seize,’ the word may be connected with, ‘engulphing,’ from which the meaning ‘to load’ would be evolved. In the sense of ‘to go’ (sich vaȥȥen, ) it must probably be connected with, or more closely with fœt, ‘step.’ See ,. ,, ‘almost, nearly,’ from vaste, vast,  (from vęste, ‘firm’), ‘firmly, strongly, powerfully, very, very quickly,’  vasto, , from fęsti; similar unmutated  from mutated  are  from ,  from. has also turned into an, the older   having been specialised in meaning; even in  vęste is an. ,, ‘to fast,’ from the  vasten,  fastên;   fastan,  fasta,  fœstan,  to fast,  vasten; a common  verb, invariably used in the sense of ‘to fast,’ which, therefore, was probably a religions conception even of the heathen Teutons. The corresponding abstract is fastubni,  fœsten,  fastunnia,  fasta, fasto,,  vaste, , vasten, , ‘fast,’ whence  postŭ, ‘fast, was borrowed at  an early period. The cognates are probably connected with in the sense of ‘to contain oneself, exercise restraint in eating and drinking,’ or ‘to obey a religious precept’;   fastan, ‘to adhere to, hold, observe.’ —  ,, ‘Shrove Tuesday,’ from vasenaht, ‘eve of the first day of Lent.’ According to the  computation of time  the evening and night were counted as part of the following day (thus in  frîgeœ̂fen, ‘Thursday evening,’ frîgeniht, ‘Thursday night’). The meaning given above did not belong to the word originally. The first part of the compound is an old verb, ‘to play the fool’; the form may have been introduced by the priests.   ,, ‘vessel, cask, vat,’ from vaȥ,  faȥ(ȥȥ), , ‘cask, vessel, chest’; corresponds to  and  vat,  fœt, ‘vessel, receptacle, chest’ ( vat),  fat, ‘cask.’ The  signification of those cognates (pre- podo-) may have been ‘receptacle,’ and since  is an allied word, we have to postulate the meaning ‘to hold together’ for the  root fat. pũdas, ‘pot, vessel,’ would be in *fôta- instead of *fata-. is not an immediate derivative of, because it assumes a *gafêti, , See , ,.  ,, ‘rotten, worthless, lazy,’ from the  and  vûl,  fûl;   vuil,  fûl,  foul,  fúll,  fûls, ‘decayed’; la- is derivative; fû- as the  root is deduced from  fúenn, ‘putrefied,’ which as a  points to an obsolete verb ( *fauan, formed like bauan), of which  feyja, ‘to allow to putrefy,’ is the factitive ( *faujan). From fū̆ several dialects have formed nouns with the meaning ‘cunnus’ ( fuþ); see. The root fū̆, from Aryan pū̆, is equally represented in the allied languages; πύον, ‘matter,’ and the   pûs, ;  and Zend root pû (pûy), ‘to stink, putrefy,’  pûvù, půti, ‘to putrefy’ (akin to  púlei, ‘matter,’ with a derivative l as in ); also  πύθω, ‘to cause to rot,’  pûteo, ‘to stink,’ pŭter, ‘putrid, rotten.’ The primary meaning of the root pŭ is ‘to emit a smell of putrefaction.’ — , ‘to be lazy,’ from late  vûletzen, ‘to be rotten,’ an intensive derivative of ; ,.