feþer

• fether, fethere, fedder, veþer

From Old English feþer, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛðər/, /ˈfɛːðər/, /ˈfɛdər/

feþer (plural feþeres)

1. a feather

• English: feather
• Scots: fedder
• Yola: vethers (plural)

• “fether, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Proto-West Germanic *feþru. See there for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfe.θer/, [ˈfe.ðer]

feþer f

1. feather
2. pen (writing instrument)

   Sōðlīċe iċ þenċe mid mīnre feðre, for þon þe mīn hēafod oft nāt nāwiht be þām þe mīn hand wrīt.

   I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.

• feþerbǣre

• fiþre

• Middle English: feþer, fether, fethere, fedder, veþer
  • English: feather
  • Scots: fedder
  • Yola: vethers (plural)

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “feþer”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.