*fedurþungaz

Runic: ᚠᛖᛞᚢᚱᚦᚢᚾᚷᚨᛉ Pronunciation: /ˈɸe.ður.θuŋ.ɡɑz/

noun · masculine · a-stem

Meanings

A fourth part, a quarter

Etymology

From *fedurþô (‘fourth’) + *-ungaz, a masculine a-stem suffix forming relational or individualizing nouns; in numeral/ordinal derivatives, a fractional part, ‘the X-th part’. Related to *-ingaz and secondarily to the feminine abstract suffixes *-ingō, *-ungō.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	fedurþungaz	fedurþungōz, fedurþungōs
Acc.	fedurþungą	fedurþunganz
Gen.	fedurþungas, fedurþungis	fedurþungǫ̂
Dat.	fedurþungai	fedurþungamaz
Inst.	fedurþungō	fedurþungamiz
Voc.	fedurþung	fedurþungōz, fedurþungōs

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Descendants

*feurþung (Proto-West Germanic)
- fiārdēng, fiārdunge (Old Frisian)
*feurþung (Proto-West Germanic)
- fēorþung, fēorþing (Old English)
  - ferthing (Middle English)
    - farthing (English)
    - ferding, farding (Scots)
*feurþung (Proto-West Germanic)
- *fiordung (Old High German)
  - vierdunc (Middle High German)
    - Vierdung (German)
fjórðungr (Old Norse)
- fjórðingur (Faroese)
- fjórðungur (Icelandic)

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