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have supposed that fuck has cognates in other Germanic languages, such as Middle Dutch fokken (to thrust, french/appendices/english french dictionary to copulate), dialectical Norwegian fukka (to french/appendices/english french dictionary copulate), and dialectical Swedish focka (to strike, copulate) and fock (penis). A very similar set of Latin words that have not yet been related to these are those for hearth or fire, "focus/focum" (with a short o), fiery, "focilis", Latin and Italian for hearthly/hearthling, "foccia/focaccia", and fire, "focca", and the Italian for bonfire, "focere". But these words came from New Latin, centuries after Middle Dutch.There is perhaps even an original french/appendices/english french dictionary Celtic derivation; futuere being related to battuere (to strike, to copulate); which may be related to Irish bot and Manx bwoid (penis). The argument is that battuere and futuere (like the Irish and Manx words) comes from the Celtic *bactuere (to pierce), from the root buc- (a point).
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