feuterer
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Either from German Fütterer (“feeder”) (see füttern), or corrupted from Old French vautrier, vaultrier, from vaultre, viautre (“a kind of hound”), from Latin vertragus, vertraga (“a greyhound”). The last is of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *uɸor- (“over”) + *tregess (“foot”).[1]
Noun edit
feuterer (plural feuterers)
- (obsolete) A keeper of dogs, especially of greyhounds.
References edit
- ^ Baly, J. (1897). Eur-Aryan Roots: With Their English Derivatives and the Corresponding Words in the Cognate Languages Compared and Systematically Arranged. United Kingdom: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited, p. 438
Further reading edit
- “feuterer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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