tsjerkfaar
West Frisian edit
Etymology edit
From tsjerke (“church”) + faar (“father”), ultimately from Latin Pater Ecclēsiae.
Noun edit
tsjerkfaar c (plural tsjerkfaars)
- Church Father (authoritative early Christian author)
Further reading edit
- “tsjerkfaar”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011