fukk stands for "Fornication Under Consent of King"
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Older etymology
Via Germanic
The word has probable
cognates in other Germanic languages, such as German
ficken (to fukk);
Dutch fokken (to breed, to beget); dialectal
Norwegian fukka (to copulate), and dialectal
Swedish focka (to strike, to copulate) and
fock (
penis).[7] This points to a possible etymology where
Common Germanic fuk– comes from an
Indo-European root meaning "to strike", cognate with non-Germanic words such as Latin
pugno "I fight" or
pugnus "fist".[7] By application of
Grimm's law, this hypothetical root has the form *
pug–. There is a theory that
fukk is most likely derived from Flemish, German, or Dutch roots, and is probably not derived from an Old English root.[9]
Via Latin or Greek
There may be a kinship with the Latin
futuere (
futuo), a verb with almost exactly the same meaning as the English verb "to fukk". From
fūtuere came French
foutre,
Catalan fotre, Italian
fottere,
Romanian futere, vulgar peninsular Spanish
joder,
Portuguese foder, and the obscure English equivalent
to futter, coined by
Richard Francis Burton. However, there is no clear past lineage or derivation for the Latin word. These roots, even if cognates, are not the original Indo-European word for
to copulate, but
Wayland Young argues that they derive from the Indo-European *
bhu– or *
bhug– ("be", "become"), or as causative "create" [see Young, 1964]. A possible intermediate might be a Latin 4th-
declension verbal noun *
fūtus, with possible meanings including "act of (pro)creating".
However, the connection to
futuere has been disputed—
Anatoly Liberman calls it a "coincidence" and writes that it is not likely to have been borrowed from the
Low German precursors to
fukk.[11]
Greek
phyō (φύω) has various meanings, including (of a man) "to beget", or (of a woman), "to give birth to".[12] Its
perfect pephyka (πέφυκα) can be likened[
citation needed] to "fukk" and its equivalents in other Germanic languages.[12]
False etymologies
One reason that the word
fukk is so hard to trace etymologically is that it was used far more extensively in common speech than in easily traceable written forms. There are several
urban-legend false etymologies postulating an
acronymic origin for the word. None of these acronyms was ever recorded before the 1960s, according to the authoritative
lexicographical work
The F-Word, and thus are
backronyms. In any event, the word
fukk has been in use far too long for some of these supposed origins to be possible. Some of these urban legends are that the word
fukk came from Irish law. If a couple were caught committing
adultery, they would be punished "For Unlawful
Carnal Knowledge In the Nude," with "fukkIN" written on the
stocks above them to denote the crime. A similar variant on this theory involves the recording by church clerks of the crime of "Forbidden Use of Carnal Knowledge." Another theory is that of a royal permission. During the
Black Death in the
Middle Ages, towns were trying to control populations and their interactions. Since uncontaminated resources were scarce, supposedly many towns required permission to have children. Hence, the legend goes, that couples that were having children were required to first obtain royal permission (usually from a local magistrate or lord) and then place a sign somewhere visible from the road in their home that said
"Fornicating Under Consent of King," which was later shortened to "fukk." This story is hard to document, but has persisted in oral and literary traditions for many years; however, it has been demonstrated to be an urban legend.[13]