Etymology

actionfest

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Today it means: A film, video game, or other such story that is full of action. Full definition →

English fest ← German Fest ← Middle High German fëst
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The story

  1. Old Frenchaucion
  2. Middle Englishaccioun
  3. Englishaction
  4. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*dʰéh₁s
  6. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁stos
  7. Proto-Italic*θēstos
  8. Proto-Italic*fēstos
  9. Latinfēstus
  10. Latinfestum
  11. Middle High Germanfëst
  12. GermanFest
  13. Englishfest
  14. English todayactionfest

From action + -fest.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.