fasten

From Middle English fastenen, from Old English fæstnian, from Proto-Germanic *fastinōną (“to secure, fasten”), from *fastuz (“fixed, secure”), equivalent to fast +‎ -en.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːsən/, /ˈfɑːsn̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfæsən/, /ˈfæsn̩/

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fasten (third-person singular simple present fastens, present participle fastening, simple past and past participle fastened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To attach or connect in a secure manner.

   The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.

   Fasten your seatbelts!

   Can you fasten these boards together with some nails?

   • Jonathan Swift

     The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.

2. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.

   to fasten a blow

   • Shakespeare

     if I can fasten but one cup upon him

• fastening
• unfasten

• Stefan, nefast

Middle High German vasten, from Old High German fastēn, from Proto-Germanic *fastijaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfastn̩/, /ˈfastən/
• Homophone: fassten
• Hyphenation: fas‧ten; pre-1996: fa‧sten

fasten (third-person singular simple present fastet, past tense fastete, past participle gefastet, auxiliary haben)

1. to fast

• Fasten
• Fastenzeit
• Fastnacht

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaːstən/
• Hyphenation: fas‧ten; pre-1996: fa‧sten

fasten

1. First-person plural preterite of fasen.
2. Third-person plural preterite of fasen.
3. First-person plural subjunctive II of fasen.
4. Third-person plural subjunctive II of fasen.

• fasten in Duden online

• fasta

fasten m or f

1. definite masculine singular of faste

From Proto-Germanic *fastijaną, whence also Old English fæstan, Old Norse fasta

fastēn

1. to fast

• Middle High German: vasten
  • German: fasten