mader

From Latin māter.

mader f

1. mother

• madere, madur, madyr, madyre, maddir, madir, mædere

From Old English mædere, mædre, from Proto-Germanic *madarǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmadər(ə)/, /ˈmadrə/

mader (uncountable)

1. Madder (Rubia tinctorum) or a similar plant.
2. The dye obtained from madder (alizarin) or a similar dye.

• English: madder
• Scots: mather, mader, madder, malder, maider (obsolete)
• → Irish: madra, madar

• “mader(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-10.

From Old Norse matr (“food”) from Proto-Germanic *matiz.

mader m

1. food

• Jakobsen, Jakob (1921) An etymological dictionary of the Norn language in Shetland‎^[1], 1st edition, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, published 1928–1932, retrieved 5 February 2023