Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/feuwar
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom earlier *fewwār, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr.
Numeral
edit< 3 | 4 | 5 > |
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Cardinal : *feuwar | ||
*feuwar[1]
Descendants
edit- Old English: fēower, fēowor, fēowur — West Saxon
- Old Frisian: fiūwer
- Old Saxon: fiuwar, fiwar, fior
- Old Dutch: *fiuwar (found in toponym Viuwarflet now called Viervliet), *fior, fier
- Old High German: fior
References
edit- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 121: “*feuwar”