vater

Inherited from Old High German fater, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈvatər/, /ˈfatər/

vater m

1. father

The old consonant stems vater and bruoder often remain uninflected in the singular, as gen. vater, bruoder beside vaters, bruoders. In the plural they take umlaut, as veter, brüeder.

• Alemannic German: Vatter, Vater, Fatter

  Italian Walser: fater, vàtter

  Swabian:

• Bavarian:

  Cimbrian: vatar, vaatar, baatar (Sette Comuni)

  Mòcheno:

  Udinese: votar, voter

• Central Franconian: Vader

  Hunsrik: Fatter

  Transylvanian Saxon: Foater

• East Central German: Voater

  Vilamovian: foter, fōter

• East Franconian:
• German: Vater, Vatter
  • → Central Franconian: Vatter
• Rhine Franconian:

  Pennsylvania German:

• Yiddish: פֿאָטער (foter)