Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fader

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fadēr.

Noun

*fader m[1]

father

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: fæder
- Middle English: fader, fæder, faderr, fadir, fadyr, fadur, feder, vader, veder, faðer, father
  - English: father
  - Scots: faither, fader, faether, faider, fither
  - Yola: vather
- → English: faeder
Old Frisian: fader, feder
- North Frisian:
  Söl'ring: Faađer
  Southern Goesharde: fååðer, fåår
- Saterland Frisian: Foar, Fadder
- West Frisian: faar
Old Saxon: fadar, fader
- Middle Low German: vāder
  - German Low German: Vader
    - Plautdietsch: Voda
Old Dutch: fadar
- Middle Dutch: vāder
  - Dutch: vader
    - Afrikaans: vader
    - Jersey Dutch: vâder
  - Limburgish: vajer, vader
Old High German: fater
- Middle High German: vater
  - Alemannic German: Vatter, Vater, Fatter
    Italian Walser: fater, vàtter
    Swabian: [Term?]
  - Bavarian:
    Cimbrian: vatar, baatar
    Mòcheno: [Term?]
    Udinese: votar, voter
  - Central Franconian: Vader
    Hunsrik: Fatter
    Transylvanian Saxon: Foater
  - East Central German: Voater
    Vilamovian: foter, fōter
  - East Franconian: [Term?]
  - German: Vater, Vatter
    - → Central Franconian: Vatter
  - Rhine Franconian: [Term?]
    Pennsylvania German: [Term?]
  - Yiddish: פֿאָטער‎ (foter)

References

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”