The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*fardiz“journey”
- Spanish · borrowed fromFernando
- English todayFernando
From Spanish Fernando, a contraction of Ferdinando, equivalent to English Ferdinand. From Proto-Germanic *fardiz (“journey”) or *friþuz (“peace”) + *nanþaz (“daring”) (from the root of *ninþaną (“to be daring”)).
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*fardiz all →
Ferdinand
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.