köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese feixe, from Latin fascis, from fascio (“to bundle”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰasko (“bundle, band”). Cognate with Galician feixe, Spanish haz, Catalan feix, Occitan fais, French faix, Italian fascio and Romanian fascie.
köken: From Old Swedish kærve, from Old Norse kerfi, kjarf, likely from Proto-Germanic *kerbą, a derivation of Proto-Germanic *krebô (“basket, bucket”). Related to karva, korv, karm. Compare Middle Dutch kerven, German kerben, Old English ceorfan. Cognate with Icelandic kerfi (“system”), Faroese kervi (“sheaf of sedge, system”).
köken: Probably liuhta (dialectal) + -e with fronting to *liyhde (*liühteh, compare Ingrian lyhe, Karelian lyyheh, liyheh, Ludian liuhtes). The form lyyhde found in Eastern Finnish is the original; the originally Western form lyhde likely derives from this with the -yy- shortened to -y-. This is likely by analogy with a sound change in Eastern Finnish that made certain short vowels long before a…