fer
Middle Irish
/fʲer/
noun
Definitions
- man
Etymology
Inherited from Old Irish fer (man) inherited from Primitive Irish *ᚃᚔᚏᚐᚄ inherited from Proto-Celtic *wiros inherited from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós (man, warrior, husband, hero, freeman).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wiHrós
Gloss
man, warrior, husband, hero, freeman
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
男, 夫, 士
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- vir Latin
- virtūtem Latin
- virum Latin
- *wiHrós Proto-Indo-European
- *weraz Proto-Germanic
- werwulf Old English
- fear Irish
- بیر Persian
- Fergal Old Irish
- Fergus Old Irish
- dóer Old Irish
- fer Old Irish
- feramail Old Irish
- ferán Old Irish
- oínfer Old Irish
- óenar Old Irish
- fear Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- fer Manx
- *wiros Proto-Celtic
- *wiHrás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *wīrás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *áryas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *wiros Proto-Italic
- *wī́ˀras Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *gwur Proto-Brythonic
- *ᚃᚔᚏᚐᚄ Primitive Irish
- vīrs Samogitian