"feþrō" meaning in Proto-Germanic

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɸeθ.rɔː/
Etymology: From Pre-Germanic *péth₂reh₂, extended from the nominative stem of the Proto-Indo-European heteroclitic noun *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én-, from *peth₂- (“to fly”). Compare Latin penna from Proto-Italic *petnā, which is a similar extension but from the oblique stem. Etymology templates: {{root|gem-pro|ine-pro|*peth₂-}}, {{der|gem-pro|ine-pro|-}} Proto-Indo-European, {{cog|la|penna}} Latin penna, {{cog|itc-pro|*petnā}} Proto-Italic *petnā Inflection templates: {{gem-decl-noun}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], feþrō [nominative, singular], feþrôz [nominative, plural], feþrō [singular, vocative], feþrôz [plural, vocative], feþrǭ [accusative, singular], feþrōz [accusative, plural], feþrōz [genitive, singular], feþrǫ̂ [genitive, plural], feþrōi [dative, singular], feþrōmaz [dative, plural], feþrō [instrumental, singular], feþrōmiz [instrumental, plural]
  1. feather Wikipedia link: Brill Publishers Tags: feminine, reconstruction Derived forms: fiþriją, gafiþriją, feþrōhamô (english: feather-cloak, used for flying)
    Sense id: en-feþrō-gem-pro-noun-tSEV6lU8 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gmw-pro",
            "2": "*feþru"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic: *feþru\nOld English: feþer\nMiddle English: feþer, fether, fethere, fedder, veþer\nEnglish: feather\nScots: fedder\nYola: vethers (plural)\nOld Frisian: fethere\nSaterland Frisian: Feeder\nWest Frisian: fear\nOld Saxon: fethara\nMiddle Low German: vēdere, vēder\nGerman Low German: Feer\nLow German: Fedder\nOld Dutch: fethera\nMiddle Dutch: vedere\nDutch: veder, veer\nAfrikaans: veer\nOld High German: fedara\nMiddle High German: vëdere, vëder\nCimbrian: vèdara, bèdara (Mezzaselva)\nGerman: Feder\nLuxembourgish: Fieder\nVilamovian: faoder\nYiddish: פֿעדער (feder)\n→ Italian: federa (“pillowcase”)\n→ Venetan: fhédera\n→ Cimbrian: fòdara",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-West Germanic: *feþru\nOld English: feþer\nMiddle English: feþer, fether, fethere, fedder, veþer\nEnglish: feather\nScots: fedder\nYola: vethers (plural)\nOld Frisian: fethere\nSaterland Frisian: Feeder\nWest Frisian: fear\nOld Saxon: fethara\nMiddle Low German: vēdere, vēder\nGerman Low German: Feer\nLow German: Fedder\nOld Dutch: fethera\nMiddle Dutch: vedere\nDutch: veder, veer\nAfrikaans: veer\nOld High German: fedara\nMiddle High German: vëdere, vëder\nCimbrian: vèdara, bèdara (Mezzaselva)\nGerman: Feder\nLuxembourgish: Fieder\nVilamovian: faoder\nYiddish: פֿעדער (feder)\n→ Italian: federa (“pillowcase”)\n→ Venetan: fhédera\n→ Cimbrian: fòdara"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "non",
            "2": "fjǫðr"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Norse: fjǫðr\nIcelandic: fjöður (“feather, fin”)\nFaroese: fjøður\nNorwegian Nynorsk: fjør, fjøder\n→ Norwegian Bokmål: fjør\nOld Swedish: fiæþer\nSwedish: fjäder\nOld Danish: fiæthær\nDanish: fjeder, fjer\nNorwegian Bokmål: fjær\nGutnish: fjädar, fjedur",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Norse: fjǫðr\nIcelandic: fjöður (“feather, fin”)\nFaroese: fjøður\nNorwegian Nynorsk: fjør, fjøder\n→ Norwegian Bokmål: fjør\nOld Swedish: fiæþer\nSwedish: fjäder\nOld Danish: fiæthær\nDanish: fjeder, fjer\nNorwegian Bokmål: fjær\nGutnish: fjädar, fjedur"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*peth₂-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "penna"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin penna",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "itc-pro",
        "2": "*petnā"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *petnā",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Pre-Germanic *péth₂reh₂, extended from the nominative stem of the Proto-Indo-European heteroclitic noun *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én-, from *peth₂- (“to fly”). Compare Latin penna from Proto-Italic *petnā, which is a similar extension but from the oblique stem.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gem-decl-noun",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ō-stem",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrôz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrôz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrǭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrōz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrōz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrǫ̂",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrōi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrōmaz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrōmiz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "gem-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Germanic",
  "lang_code": "gem-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/feþrō",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "fiþriją"
        },
        {
          "word": "gafiþriją"
        },
        {
          "english": "feather-cloak, used for flying",
          "word": "feþrōhamô"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "feather"
      ],
      "id": "en-feþrō-gem-pro-noun-tSEV6lU8",
      "links": [
        [
          "feather",
          "feather"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "reconstruction"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Brill Publishers"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɸeθ.rɔː/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "feþrō"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "fiþriją"
    },
    {
      "word": "gafiþriją"
    },
    {
      "english": "feather-cloak, used for flying",
      "word": "feþrōhamô"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gmw-pro",
            "2": "*feþru"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic: *feþru\nOld English: feþer\nMiddle English: feþer, fether, fethere, fedder, veþer\nEnglish: feather\nScots: fedder\nYola: vethers (plural)\nOld Frisian: fethere\nSaterland Frisian: Feeder\nWest Frisian: fear\nOld Saxon: fethara\nMiddle Low German: vēdere, vēder\nGerman Low German: Feer\nLow German: Fedder\nOld Dutch: fethera\nMiddle Dutch: vedere\nDutch: veder, veer\nAfrikaans: veer\nOld High German: fedara\nMiddle High German: vëdere, vëder\nCimbrian: vèdara, bèdara (Mezzaselva)\nGerman: Feder\nLuxembourgish: Fieder\nVilamovian: faoder\nYiddish: פֿעדער (feder)\n→ Italian: federa (“pillowcase”)\n→ Venetan: fhédera\n→ Cimbrian: fòdara",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-West Germanic: *feþru\nOld English: feþer\nMiddle English: feþer, fether, fethere, fedder, veþer\nEnglish: feather\nScots: fedder\nYola: vethers (plural)\nOld Frisian: fethere\nSaterland Frisian: Feeder\nWest Frisian: fear\nOld Saxon: fethara\nMiddle Low German: vēdere, vēder\nGerman Low German: Feer\nLow German: Fedder\nOld Dutch: fethera\nMiddle Dutch: vedere\nDutch: veder, veer\nAfrikaans: veer\nOld High German: fedara\nMiddle High German: vëdere, vëder\nCimbrian: vèdara, bèdara (Mezzaselva)\nGerman: Feder\nLuxembourgish: Fieder\nVilamovian: faoder\nYiddish: פֿעדער (feder)\n→ Italian: federa (“pillowcase”)\n→ Venetan: fhédera\n→ Cimbrian: fòdara"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "non",
            "2": "fjǫðr"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Norse: fjǫðr\nIcelandic: fjöður (“feather, fin”)\nFaroese: fjøður\nNorwegian Nynorsk: fjør, fjøder\n→ Norwegian Bokmål: fjør\nOld Swedish: fiæþer\nSwedish: fjäder\nOld Danish: fiæthær\nDanish: fjeder, fjer\nNorwegian Bokmål: fjær\nGutnish: fjädar, fjedur",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Norse: fjǫðr\nIcelandic: fjöður (“feather, fin”)\nFaroese: fjøður\nNorwegian Nynorsk: fjør, fjøder\n→ Norwegian Bokmål: fjør\nOld Swedish: fiæþer\nSwedish: fjäder\nOld Danish: fiæthær\nDanish: fjeder, fjer\nNorwegian Bokmål: fjær\nGutnish: fjädar, fjedur"
    }
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        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*peth₂-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "penna"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin penna",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "itc-pro",
        "2": "*petnā"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *petnā",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Pre-Germanic *péth₂reh₂, extended from the nominative stem of the Proto-Indo-European heteroclitic noun *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én-, from *peth₂- (“to fly”). Compare Latin penna from Proto-Italic *petnā, which is a similar extension but from the oblique stem.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gem-decl-noun",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ō-stem",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrôz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrôz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrǭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrōz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrōz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrǫ̂",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrōi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrōmaz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feþrōmiz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
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  "lang_code": "gem-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/feþrō",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
        "Proto-Germanic feminine nouns",
        "Proto-Germanic lemmas",
        "Proto-Germanic nouns",
        "Proto-Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Proto-Germanic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peth₂-",
        "Proto-Germanic ō-stem nouns",
        "gem-pro:Body parts"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "feather"
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      "links": [
        [
          "feather",
          "feather"
        ]
      ],
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        "feminine",
        "reconstruction"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Brill Publishers"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɸeθ.rɔː/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "feþrō"
}

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