köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese desden, borrowed from Old Occitan desdenh, deverbal from desdenhar, from des- + Latin dignāre. Compare Spanish desdén, French dédain.
köken: From Middle Low German voracht, from Old Saxon, from Proto-West Germanic *firiahtu, from *firi- (“across, through”) + *ahtu (“attention, consideration”). Cognate with German Verachtung.
köken: From Middle Low German voracht, from Old Saxon, from Proto-West Germanic *firiahtu, from *firi- (“across, through”) + *ahtu (“attention, consideration”). Cognate with Swedish förakt, German Verachtung.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Latin speciō Latin dēspiciō From dē- + speciō. Compare typologically Russian презира́ть (prezirátʹ) (akin to зреть (zretʹ), взор (vzor)).