cacchen

Middle English

Alternative forms

• kacchen, caschen, caicchen, kecchen, kichen

Etymology

Etymology tree

substratebor.?

Proto-Indo-European *kap-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti

Proto-Indo-European *kaptós

Proto-Italic *kaptos

Latin captus

Proto-Indo-European *-yetider.

Latin -io

Vulgar Latin *captiāre

Old French chacierbor.

Anglo-Norman cachierbor.

Middle English cacchen

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman cachier, variant of Old French chacier, from Late Latin captiāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkat͡ʃən/

Verb

cacchen

1. to catch

Conjugation

Conjugation of cacchen (weak irregular/in -ede)

infinitive	(to) cacchen, cacche
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	cacche	caughte, cacched(e)
2nd-person singular	cacchest	caughtest, cacchedest
3rd-person singular	caccheth	caughte, cacched(e)
subjunctive singular	cacche
imperative singular		—
plural1	cacchen, cacche	caughten, caughte, caccheden, cacched(e)
imperative plural	caccheth, cacche	—
participles	cacchynge, cacchende	caught, cacched, ycaught, ycacched

¹ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

• English: catch
  • → French: catch
  • → Kabuverdianu:
    • → Portuguese: cachir
  • → Spanish: cachar
• Yola: kotch

References

• “cacchen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.