Actually, you're both wrong, but foxie is a little bit less wrong. "Fuck" is derived from the German word "frichen" (sp?), which means "to strike" (as foxie stated in a different way. As with many foreign words ported to English, the pronunciation of the word was marred a bit. The sexual connotation came from the inevitable thrusting of sex, which could be described as a striking motion.
I've heard another interesting theory: that fuck is actually an acronym. In England, the king had the ultimate authority over the law, even over the church. While it was against church law to have sex outside of marriage, the king could grant a pardon to couples who wished to do so. This came to be known by the acronym F.U.C.K. (Fornicate Under Consent of the King). Most likely just a myth, but still rather interesting, don't you think?
-Capt. Havoc
foxiekins <Foxiekins_at_aol.com> wrote: --- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "chrysaetos@..." wrote:
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> [snip]
>
> On the same note, "fuck" or variants thereon show up in a number
> of western languages, which suggests it hails from somewhere
> around Indo-European (the lingual ancestor of everything from
> latin to german to norse). In both cases, the actual origin
> is lost to the mists of unrecorded history. Because really,
> who notes the first occurence of obscene gestures?
>
Actually "fuck" is an archaic term meaning "to strike a blow"...
Thus, to fuck someone up is actually the original usage, while the
sexual references were originally idioms... And over time, the
original sense of the work was lost, and only the idioms remained...
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