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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, richard cheney centuries after Middle Dutch.There is perhaps even an original Celtic derivation; futuere being related to battuere (to strike, to copulate); which may richard cheney be related to Irish bot and Manx bwoid (penis). The argument is that battuere and futuere (like the Irish and Manx words) richard cheney comes from the Celtic *bactuere (to pierce), from the root buc- (a point). An even earlier root may be the Egyptian petcha (to copulate), which has a highly suggestive hieroglyph. Or perhaps Latin "futuere" came from the root "fu", Common Indo-European "bhu", meaning "be, become" and originally referred to procreation.Fake etymologies There are several urban-legend fake etymologies postulating an acronymic origin for the word.
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