Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/feuwar

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From earlier *fewwār, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr.

Numeral

Proto-West Germanic cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : *feuwar

*feuwar

1. four

Descendants

• Old English: fēower, fēowor, fēowur — West Saxon
  • Middle English: four, fore, feour, fower, fowwre, foure, fowr, vour
    • English: four
    • Geordie English: fower
    • Scots: fower
    • Yola: vour, voure, vowre
• Old Frisian: fiūwer
  • North Frisian:

    Föhr-Amrum: fjauer

    Goesharde: fjauer

    Helgoland: schtjuur

    Mooring: fjouer

    Sylt: fjuur

    Wiedingharde: fjauer

  • Saterland Frisian: fjauer
  • West Frisian: fjouwer
• Old Saxon: fiuwar, fiwar, fior
  • Middle Low German: vêr
    • Low German:
      • Dutch Low Saxon: vier, veer
      • German Low German: veer (Hamburgisch)
        • Westphalian:

          Münsterländisch: veer

          East Westphalian: veier (Paderbornisch), fåir' (Ravensbergisch)

    • Plautdietsch: vea
• Old Dutch: *fiuwar (found in toponym Viuwarflet now called Viervliet), *fior, fier
  • Middle Dutch: vier
    • Dutch: vier
      • Afrikaans: vier
• Old High German: fior
  • Middle High German: vier
    • Alemannic German: vier
    • Bavarian:

      Cimbrian: viare

      Mòcheno: viar

    • Central Franconian: vier

      Hunsrik: fier

    • German: vier
    • Luxembourgish: véier
    • Pennsylvania German: vier
    • Vilamovian: fiyr
    • Yiddish: פֿיר (fir)