Name Element
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Origin and Meaning
Germanic name element
Old Norse
faðir = 'father' [1] [2] [3] [4]
Old Swedish
faðir = 'father' [2]
Gothic
fadar = 'father' [1]
Old High German
fater = 'father' [1]
Old Saxon
fadar = 'father' [1]
Old Frisian
feder = 'father' [1]
Old English
fæder = 'father' [1]
Related Names
See FaðiR
Combinations
Last Element Forms
-faðir
-far
-fǫðr
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Elias Wessén: Våra ord (1997)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
- ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)