Feder

Borrowed from German Feder.

Feder (plural Feders)

1. A surname from German, equivalent to English Feather.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Feder is the 11026^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2884 individuals. Feder is most common among White (95.6%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Feder”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 558.

From Middle High German vëdere, from Old High German fedara (akin to Old Saxon fethara), from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”).

Compare Low German Fedder, Dutch veder, veer, English feather, Danish fjer, Swedish fjäder.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeːdəʁ/, [ˈfeːdɐ]

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• Hyphenation: Fe‧der

Feder f (genitive Feder, plural Federn, diminutive Federchen n)

1. feather
2. spring (of a machine or gadget)
3. (historical) quill pen
4. nib (of a fountain pen)

   Synonym: Federspitze

5. (metonymically) penholder, fountain pen

   Synonyms: Federhalter, Füllfederhalter

Feder m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Feders or (with an article) Feder, feminine genitive Feder, plural Feders or Feder)

1. a surname, equivalent to English Feather

• English: Feder, Feather

• “Feder” in Duden online
• “Feder” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Feder” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Feder”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891