feuterer

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Either from German Fütterer (feeder) (see füttern), or corrupted from Old French vautrier, vaultrier, from vaultre, viautre (a kind of hound), from Latin vertragus, vertraga (a greyhound). The last is of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *uɸor- (over) + *tregess (foot).[1]

Noun

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feuterer (plural feuterers)

  1. (obsolete) A keeper of dogs, especially of greyhounds.

References

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  1. ^ Baly, J. (1897). Eur-Aryan Roots: With Their English Derivatives and the Corresponding Words in the Cognate Languages Compared and Systematically Arranged. United Kingdom: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited, p. 438

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