onfang

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Definition of onfang in English English dictionary

To conceive

To receive; welcome

To accept; endure

Etymology

() From Middle English onfangen, onfon (“to receive, accept”), from Old English onfōn, ondfōn (“to receive, accept, perceive”), from Proto-Germanic *and-fánhanan (“to accept”), from Proto-Indo-European *pak'- (“to fasten, fix, stick”). Cognate with West Frisian ûntfange (“to receive”), Dutch ontvangen (“to receive”), German empfangen (“to receive, welcome”), Icelandic aðfang (“input, supply”), Latin pangō (“fix, fasten, drive in”), Old English ġefangian (“to fasten, join”). More at un-, fang.