Etymology

Feder

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Today it means: A surname from German, equivalent to English Feather. Full definition →

German Feder ← Middle High German vëdere ← Old High German fëdara
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*peth₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*péth₂r̥
  3. Proto-Germanic*feþrō
  4. Proto-West Germanic*feþru
  5. Old High Germanfëdara
  6. Middle High Germanvëdere
  7. GermanFeder
  8. English todayFeder

Borrowed from German Feder.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.