'father' (word origins)

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[johnneydoe]

INTP’s way of saying happy Father’s Day 😂

[Alkimi]

I like that possible connection to "feeder". That's quite a satisfying theory.
It's cool how people don't come out of the woodworks to tell you those sorts of similarities are meaningless when you have respected credentials. It makes me want to go out and get myself some of those. Formal education was always such fun but it never helped me pay the bills, as you know. 😢

[iammegan]

Nice dodging the Sanskrit pronunciations

In all seriousness, thank you for the father’s day short ❤

[heirwolf]

A bit similar to the meaning of lord, hlafweard, loaf guardian/keeper.

[magnusjensson]

I think of the verb "fæða" both meening to feed and to give birth.

[Sindraug]

With "father" and other PIE words that have not gone through a lot of change, can we see any similarities with other proto language families that could possibly link the families together?