>>>First? A noun on it's own right.
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>>I speak enough German to embarrass myself over there but I never came across that word. Can't imagine how it is pronounced. I never grasped the relation of F to V in German.
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>"Fist" with an R inserted in the middle, which elongates the "i" sound a bit does does not change intonation...

Nice. Since Germans do not longer pronounce R (the way Goebbles used to pronounced it is out of fashion somehow), even true.