fist – English noun declension

English noun forms of fist

Noun: fist
Singularfist
Pluralfists

Sample Sentences

  • The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.
  • More light then Culver in the Faulcons fist. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 34:]
  • City look stronger, fitter and more motivated than last season and even at this early stage the gap feels like a sizeable advantage. Yes, it is way too early to make snap judgments about the impact on the title race. It has, however, been long enough to ascertain that Manuel Pellegrini’s team are going to make a much better fist of it this time. [2015 August 16, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:]
  • With the rise of cognitive neuroscience, the time may be coming when we can make a reasonable fist of mapping down from an understanding of the functional architecture of the mind to the structural architecture of the brain. [2005, Darryl N. Davis, Visions of Mind: Architectures for Cognition and Affect, page 144:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English fist, from Old English fȳst (“fist”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūsti (“fist”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to punch; to prick, stab”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Yola fest, hist (“fist”), Saterland Frisian Fäste, Fääste (“fist”), West Frisian fûst (“fist”), Central Franconian Fuus (“fist”), Cimbrian bòista, vòista (“fist”), Dutch vuist (“fist”), German Faust (“fist”), Low German Fuust (“fist”), Luxembourgish Fauscht (“fist”), Vilamovian faojst, faust (“fist”), Yiddish פֿויסט (foyst, “fist”); also Irish fuaigh (“sew, stitch”), Latin pugnus (“fist”), Ancient Greek πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist”), πύκτης (púktēs, “boxer, pugilist”), Lithuanian kumštis (“fist”), Bulgarian пестник (pestnik, “fist; punch”), Czech pěst (“fist”), Polish pięść (“fist”), Russian пясть (pjastʹ, “metacarpus”), Serbo-Croatian пе̏ст, pȅst, пѐсница, pèsnica (“fist”), Slovak päsť (“fist”), Slovene pest (“fist”). More at five. See: Middle English Nouns 'fist', Dutch Nouns 'vuist', German Nouns 'Faust', Latin Nouns 'pugnus', Ancient Greek Nouns 'πυγμή', Bulgarian Nouns 'пестник', Czech Nouns 'pěst', Polish Nouns 'pięść', Russian Nouns 'пясть', Slovak Nouns 'päsť'.

Verbs referencing "fist"

Latin Nouns fustis, Ancient Greek Nouns πυγμή, Bulgarian Nouns пестник.