Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/feuwar

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

From earlier *fewwār, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr.

Numeral

*feuwar[1]

four

Descendants

Old English: fēower, fēowor
- Middle English: four, fore, feour, fower, fowwre, foure, fowr, vour
  - English: four
    - Northumbrian: fower
  - Scots: fower
  - Yola: vour, voure, vowre
Old Frisian: fiūwer
- North Frisian:
  Föhr-Amrum: fjauer
  Goesharde: fjauer
  Helgoland: schtjuur
  Mooring: fjouer
  Sylt: fjuur
  Wiedingharde: fjauer
- Saterland Frisian: fjauer
- West Frisian: fjouwer
Old Saxon: fiuwar, fiwar, fior
- Middle Low German: vêr
  - Low German:
    - Dutch Low Saxon: vier, veer
    - German Low German: veer (Hamburgisch)
      - Westphalian:
        Münsterländisch: veer
        East Westphalian: veier (Paderbornisch), fåir' (Ravensbergisch)
  - Plautdietsch: vea
Old Dutch: *fiuwar (found in toponym Viuwarflet now called Viervliet), *fior, fier
- Middle Dutch: vier
  - Dutch: vier
    - Afrikaans: vier
Old High German: fior
- Middle High German: vier
  - Alemannic German: vier
  - Bavarian:
    Cimbrian: viare
    Mòcheno: viar
  - Central Franconian: vier
    Hunsrik: fier
  - German: vier
  - Luxembourgish: véier
  - Pennsylvania German: vier
  - Vilamovian: fiyr
  - Yiddish: פֿיר‎ (fir)

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 121: “*feuwar”

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[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 121: “*feuwar”