fjǫðr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *feþrō, whence also Old English feþer (English feather), Old Saxon fethara, Old High German fedara. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”). === Noun === fjǫðr f (genitive fjaðrar, plural fjaðrar) feather ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== fiðri n (“plumage”) ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: fjöður (“feather, fin”) Faroese: fjøður Norwegian Nynorsk: fjør, fjøder → Norwegian Bokmål: fjør Old Swedish: fiæþer Swedish: fjäder Old Danish: fiæthær Danish: fjeder, fjer Norwegian Bokmål: fjær Gutnish: fjädar, fjedur === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “fjöðr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 140; also available at the Internet Archive