Stiefvater

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German stiefvater, from Old High German stioffater, from Proto-West Germanic *steupafader, from Proto-Germanic *steupafadēr. Cognate with Dutch stiefvader, English stepfather, Danish stedfar, Swedish styvfar, Icelandic stjúpfaðir. By surface analysis, stief- (“step-”) +‎ Vater (“father”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃtiːfˌfaːtɐ/, /ˈʃtiːfˌfaːtər/ === Noun === Stiefvater m (strong, genitive Stiefvaters, plural Stiefväter) stepfather ==== Declension ==== ==== Hypernyms ==== Stiefeltern ==== Derived terms ==== stiefväterlich === Further reading === “Stiefvater” in Duden online “Stiefvater”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)