Etymology

wider

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Middle English widder ← Old English widdra
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromwiddra
  2. Middle English · inherited fromwidder
  3. English todaywider

From Middle English widder, widdur, widere, from Old English widdra; equivalent to wide + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.