fostor
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Old English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-West Germanic *fōstr, from Proto-Germanic *fōstrą, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fōstor n
Declension[edit]
Declension of fostor (strong a-stem)
Derived terms[edit]
- fōstorbearn (“foster child”)
- fōstorbrōþor (“foster brother”)
- fōstorfæder (“foster father, nourisher”)
- fōstorland (“land assigned for the procuring of provisions”)
- fōstorling (“foster child, fosterling”)
- fōstorlēan (“remuneration for raising a foster child”)
- fōstormann (“foster man, bondsman, security”)
- fōstormōdor (“foster mother”)
- fōstornōþ (“pasturage, pasture”)
- fōstorsweostor (“foster sister”)
- fōstorċild (“foster child”)
- fōstre (“fosterer, nurse”)
- fōstrian (“to foster, nourish”)
- fōstring (“native, disciple”)
Descendants[edit]
Middle English: foster, fostre, voster; fostær; forster
References[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fōstor”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Categories:
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English nouns
- Old English neuter nouns
- Old English neuter a-stem nouns