Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary

Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *feþrō Scott K. Shay Wardja Press https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_feþrō

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πτερόν feather; wing 𒁁𒋻 wing, feather penna wing; feather; quill pen

noun feminine ō-stem feather From Proto-Indo-European *péth2-r-eh2, extended from the nominative stem of the heteroclitic noun *péth2-r̥ ~ *pth2-én-s, from root *peth2- (‘to spread out; to fly’). Cognates are Hittite 𒁁𒋻 (pát-tar /⁠pattar⁠/, ‘wing, feather’), Old Armenian փետուր (pʻetur, ‘feather’), Latin penna (‘wing; feather; quill pen’), Cornish edhen (‘bird’), Slovene perọ̑ (‘feather’), and Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, ‘feather; wing’).