The origin of the f word?

Question

Please do not report this question I'm being serious. Someone told me that it goes back to medieval times or something and women may not

Fornicate Unless they have Consent of the King (F*CK)

Is this true?

Answer 1

No, it is an old English law term that was 'Fornication under Carnal Knowledge'.  Prostitution for short.

Answer 2

No. It's of Anglo-Saxon origin.

"The word **** has probable cognates in other Germanic languages, such as German f****n (to ****); Dutch fokken (to strike, to beget); dialectal Norwegian fukka (to copulate), and dialectal Swedish fokka (to strike, to copulate) and fock (p***s)."

Answer 3

I was an answer to a question at a court martial. when a solider on guard was found by a very young inexperience officer having his way with a camp follower,Q: and what was the man doing when you found him?    A: well erm sir it I well he was . you would

Find it Under Carnel Knwolage

Answer 4

Yes, i once downloaded a show (one chapter-show) about the origin of this word.

It really does go back to earlier time. I just never watched that show, but it should be interesting.

Answer 5

i'd like to know too!

Answer 6

Wiki is your friend (well unless it doesn't source it's answers) ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**** <- just add the f-word here instead of the stars....stupid obscenity filter...

There is a lengthy bit on where it might come from but apparently the whole 'fornicate unless they have consent of the king' is an urban legend:

Older etymology

Via Germanic

The word **** has probable cognates in other Germanic languages, such as German f****n (to ****); Dutch fokken (to strike, to beget); dialectal Norwegian fukka (to copulate), and dialectal Swedish fokka (to strike, to copulate) and fock (p***s).[6]

This points to a possible etymology where Common Germanic ***–, by reverse application of Grimm's law, would have as its most likely Indo-European ancestor *pug–, which appears in Latin and Greek words meaning "fight" and "fist" (cf. the Latin-derived English words pugnacious = "combative", and pugilist = "fighter, boxer"). In early Proto-Germanic the word was likely used at first as a slang or euphemistic replacement for an older word for intercourse, and then became the usual word for intercourse.[citation needed]

The original Indo-European root for to copulate is likely to be *h3yebh– or *h3eybh–, which is attested in Sanskrit यभति (yabhati), Russian ебать (yebat'), Polish jebać, and Serbian jebati, among others: compare the Greek verb οἴφω (oíphō) = "I have s*x with", and the Greek noun Ζέφυρος (Zéphyros) (which references a Greek belief that the west wind Zephyrus caused pregnancy).

Possible Latin origins

    * Other possible connections are to Latin fÅ«tuere (almost exactly the same meaning as the English verb "to ****"); but it would have to be explained how the word reached Scandinavia from Roman contact, and how the t became k.[citation needed] From fÅ«tuere came French foutre, Catalan fotre, Italian fottere, Romanian futere, vulgar peninsular Spanish follar and joder, and Portuguese foder. However, there is considerable doubt and no clear lineage for these derivations. These roots, even if cognates, are not the original Indo-European word for to copulate, but Wayland Young (who agrees that these words are related) 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 *fÅ«tus, with possible meanings including "act of (pro)creating".

    * A derivation from Latin facere = "to do", "to make" has been suggested.[citation needed]

There are several urban-legend false etymologies postulating an acronymic origin for the word. None of these acronyms was ever heard before the 1960s, according to the authoritative lexicographical work, The F-Word, and thus are backronyms. In any event, the word **** 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 **** came from Irish law. If a couple were caught committing adultery, they would be punished "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge In the Nude", with "******" written on the stocks above them to denote the crime.

    * That it came from any of:

          o "Fornication Under Carnal/Cardinal Knowledge"

          o "Fornication Under [the] Control/Consent/Command of the King"

          o "Fornication Under the Christian King"

          o "False Use of Carnal Knowledge"

          o "Felonious Use of Carnal Knowledge"

          o "Felonious Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"

          o "Full-On Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"

          o "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"

          o "Found Under Carnal Knowledge"

          o "Forced Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", referring to the crime of rape.

Answer 7

no it was the people of Nagasaki when the bomb dropped.

somone shouted what the f**k was that