fostor

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Old English

Alternative forms

fēster, fōster, fōstur

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fōstr, from Proto-Germanic *fōstrą, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfoːs.tor/

Noun

fōstor n

fostering, nourishing, rearing, feeding
food, nourishment, provisions

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	fōstor	—
accusative	fōstor	—
genitive	fōstres	—
dative	fōstre	—

Derived terms

fōstorbearn (“foster child”)
fōstorbrōþor (“foster brother”)
fōstorċild (“foster child”)
fōstorfæder (“foster father, nourisher”)
fōstorland (“land assigned for the procuring of provisions”)
fōstorlēan (“remuneration for raising a foster child”)
fōstorling (“foster child, fosterling”)
fōstormann (“foster man, bondsman, security”)
fōstormōdor (“foster mother”)
fōstornōþ (“pasturage, pasture”)
fōstorsweostor (“foster sister”)
fōstre (“fosterer, nurse”)
fōstrian (“to foster, nourish”)
fōstring (“native, disciple”)

Descendants

Middle English: foster, fostre, voster, fostær, forster

English: foster
Scots: foster

References

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

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