The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*fardiz“journey”
- Spanish · borrowed fromFerdinando
- English todayFerdinand
From Spanish Ferdinando, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz (“journey”) + *nanþaz (“daring”) (from the root of *ninþaną (“to be daring”)). * (Uranus): The moon is named after a character in Shakespeare's The Tempest. * (Philippines): Named after Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.