The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*fedurþô
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*feurþō
- Old English · inherited fromfēorþa
- Middle English · inherited fromfourthe
- English todayfourth
Inherited from Middle English fourthe, an alteration (due to four) of ferthe, from Old English fēorþa, fēowerþa, from Proto-West Germanic *feurþō, from Proto-Germanic *fedurþô, equivalent to four + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognates Compare West Frisian fjirde, Saterland Frisian fjädde, fjoode, Dutch vierde, German Low German feerde, feerd, German vierte, Danish fjerde, Icelandic fjórði.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishfēorþa all →
ferd
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.