*fērō

Runic: ᚠᛖᚱᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈɸɛː.rɔː/

noun · feminine · ō-stem

Meanings

danger

Etymology

From a lengthened grade root of Proto-Indo-European *per- (‘to try, dare, risk’) with the semantic shift being ‘malicious attempt, stalking’ → ‘danger’ → ‘fear’ (Pokorny 1959). Compare Old Armenian փորձ (pʻorj, ‘attempt’), Ancient Greek πεῖρᾰ (peîră) (peîră, ‘trial’) (Orel 2003).

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	fērō	fērôz
Acc.	fērǭ	fērōz
Gen.	fērōz	fērǫ̂
Dat.	fērōi	fērōmaz
Inst.	fērō	fērōmiz
Voc.	fērō	fērôz

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Descendants

*fār, *fāra (Old Dutch)
- vāre, vaer (Middle Dutch)
fǣr, ġefǣr (Old English)
- fer, fere, feer (Middle English)
  - fear (English)
  - fere, feir, fear (Scots)
*fāra, fār (Old Saxon)
- vâre, vâr, gevâr, gevêr, gevêre (Middle Low German)
  - fare (Danish)
  - Gefahr (Low German)
  - fare (Norwegian Bokmål)
  - fare (Norwegian Nynorsk)
*fāra, fār (Old Saxon)
- vâre, vâr, gevâr, gevêr, gevêre (Middle Low German)
  - fara (Swedish)
    - vaara (Finnish)
*fār, fāra (Old High German)
- vāre, vār, gevāre (Middle High German)
  - Gefor (Luxembourgish)
*fār, fāra (Old High German)
- vāre, vār, gevāre (Middle High German)
  - Fahr, Gefahr (German)
    - Gefahr (Low German)
    - Gefoar (Saterland Frisian)
    - געפֿער (gefer) (Yiddish)
*fār, fāra (Old High German)
- vāre, vār, gevāre (Middle High German)
  - Fahr, Gefahr (German)
    - gevaar (Dutch)
      - gefaar (West Frisian)
𐍆𐌴𐍂𐌾𐌰 (fērja) (Gothic)

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