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/,

feþer f

1. feather
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     baþian brimfuglas, · brǣdan feþra,
     hrēosan hrīm ond snāw, · hagle ġemenġed.

     bathe of sea-birds, spread of feathers,
     fall of frost and snow, mingled with hail.

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.