Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fader

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *fadēr.

Noun edit

*fader m^[1]

father

Inflection edit

R-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*fader
Genitive	*fadur
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*fader	*fadar
Accusative	*fadar	*fadar
Genitive	*fadur	*fadrō
Dative	*fadri	*fadrum
Instrumental	*fadri	*fadrum

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Old English: fæder
- Middle English: fader, fæder, faderr, fadir, fadyr, fadur, feder, vader, veder, faðer, father, ffader
  - English: father
    - → Marshallese: bata
    - Gullah: farruh
  - Scots: faither, fader, faether, faider, fither
  - Yola: vather
- → English: faeder
Old Frisian: feder, fader
- North Frisian:
  Goesharde:
  Hoolmer: fooje
  Hoorninger: fååje
  Heligoland: Foor
  Sylt: Faađer
- Saterland Frisian: Foar
- West Frisian: faar
Old Saxon: fadar, fader
- Middle Low German: vāder
  - German Low German: Vader, Vaar
    - Plautdietsch: Voda
Old Dutch: fadar
- Middle Dutch: vāder, vaer
  - Dutch: vader, (obsolete) vaeder, vaar, vaâr, vaêr
    - Afrikaans: vader
    - Berbice Creole Dutch: fadir
    - Javindo: fader
    - Jersey Dutch: vâder
    - Negerhollands: vader
    - Skepi Creole Dutch: father
  - Limburgish: vajer, vader
Old High German: fater
- Middle High German: vater
  - Alemannic German: Vatter, Vater, Fatter
    Italian Walser: fater, vàtter
    Swabian:
  - Bavarian:
    Cimbrian: vatar, vaatar, baatar
    Mòcheno:
    Udinese: votar, voter
  - Central Franconian: Vader
    Hunsrik: Fatter
    Transylvanian Saxon: Foater
  - East Central German: Voater
    Vilamovian: foter, fōter
  - East Franconian:
  - German: Vater, Vatter
    - → Central Franconian: Vatter
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Pennsylvania German:
  - Yiddish: פֿאָטער (foter)

References edit

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 60: “PWGmc *fader”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 60: “PWGmc *fader”

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