to spank or smack · to whack, to strike or crash into
çekim: geçmiş fessé · ortaç fessé · şimdiki fesse · ulaç fessant
köken: Inherited from Middle French fesser, derived from Old French faisse, fece ( compare Old French faisser), derived from Latin fascia. The spelling and sense (originally "to strike with a rod") influenced by unrelated fesse (“buttock”)). Compare also Late Latin fasciāre.
aile: fessé, fessée
Quand les enfants se tiennent mal, leurs parents les fessent et tout ça se répète le lendemain.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese açoute (“lash”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic ال (al-) + سَوْط (sawṭ, “whip, cane”). Cognate with Portuguese açoute and Spanish azote.
stroke with the hand or a stick, usually as punishment; spank
köken: From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *palu, from Proto-Austronesian *palu (cf. Malay palu (“hammer”)). Some writers (e.g. English 1985) treat this as a borrowing from Spanish palo (“stick, cudgel”), but it is most likely a chance resemblance.