An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/feucht

by Friedrich Kluge

feucht, adj., ‘moist, damp, humid,’ from the equiv. MidHG. viuhte, OHG. fûhti, fûht, (Goth. *fûhtu- is wanting). The adj. is West Teut.; comp. LG. fucht, AS. fûht, E. obsolete, Du. vochtig, ‘damp.’ An allied root (pū̆k), qū̆k, quak, is assumed for OSlov. kysnąti, ‘to grow sour,’ kvasiti, ‘to acidify,’ which are scarcely connected with this word.