feter

fēter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of fētō

• fetor

From Proto-Germanic *feturaz (“fetter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“foot, step”). Cognate with Dutch veter (“lace”), Old High German fezzera, obsolete German Fesser, and Old Norse fjǫturr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfe.ter/

feter f (nominative plural fetera or fetere)

1. fetter
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     Swā iċ mōdsefan · mīnne sceōlde,
     oft earmċeariġ, · ēðle bidǣled,
     frēomǣgum feor, · feterum sǣlan,

     Like I should my heart,
     oft wretched, bereft of homeland,
     far from noble kinsmen, bind with fetters,

Strong ō-stem:

From Old Norse feitr, from Proto-Germanic *faitaz.

fēter

1. fat

• Swedish: fet

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Przemyśl) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛ.tɛr]

feter m inan

1. (Przemyśl) alternative form of fetor

• Aleksander Saloni (1899), “feter”, in “Lud wiejski w okolicy Przeworska”, in M. Arct, E. Lubowski, editors, Wisła : miesięcznik gieograficzno-etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 13, Warsaw: Artur Gruszecki, page 238