Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fōdr

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder”).

Noun

*fōdr n

fodder

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*fōdr
Genitive	*fōdras
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*fōdr	*fōdru
Accusative	*fōdr	*fōdru
Genitive	*fōdras	*fōdrō
Dative	*fōdrē	*fōdrum
Instrumental	*fōdru	*fōdrum

Derived terms

Descendants

Old English: fōdor
- Middle English: fodder, foddre, fodre, foder, fodyr, foddur, voddur
  - English: fodder
  - Middle Scots: foder, fodder, fother, fothir
    - Scots: fother
Old Frisian: fōder
- North Frisian: Fođer, fooder
- Saterland Frisian: Fodder
- West Frisian: foer
Old Saxon: *fōdar
- Middle Low German: vōder
Old Dutch: *fuodar
- Dutch: voeder, voer
  - Afrikaans: voer
- Limburgish: voder, voor
Old High German: fuotar
- Middle High German: vuoter
  - Cimbrian: fuutar
  - German: Futter
  - Luxembourgish: Fudder
→ Old French: fuerre (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“sheath”).

Noun

*fōdr n^[1]

sheath

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*fōdr
Genitive	*fōdras
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*fōdr	*fōdru
Accusative	*fōdr	*fōdru
Genitive	*fōdras	*fōdrō
Dative	*fōdrē	*fōdrum
Instrumental	*fōdru	*fōdrum

Descendants

Old English: fōdor
Old Dutch: *fuodar
- Middle Dutch: voeder
  - Dutch: voer
Old High German: fuotar
- Middle High German: vuoter
  - German: Futter
    - → Polish: futro
  - Luxembourgish: Fudder
  - → Venetan: fódro
    - →? Cimbrian: fòdara
- → Italian: fodero

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 327: “PWGmc *fōdr”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 327: “PWGmc *fōdr”

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