father

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Betekenis (Engels)

1. A (generally human) male who begets a child.
2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
3. A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
4. A term of respectful address for a priest.
5. A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
6. A pioneering figure in a particular field.
7. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
8. Something inanimate that begets.
9. A member of a church council.
10. The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.

vader

ouwe heer

ouweheer

mijnheer pastoor

vake

voorzaat

male parent

father’s brother

my father

mother’s sister’s husband

father’s sister

male ancestor

cleargyman

the episcopacy

the episcopate

paternal relation

my uncle

family head

spiritual father

your father

one’s own father

Frequentie

Met koppelteken als

fa‧ther

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈfɑːðə(ɹ)/

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-? Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr? Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr Proto-Germanic *fadēr Proto-West Germanic *fader Old English fæder Middle English fader English father From Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. Doublet of ayr, faeder, padre, pater, and père. The development of the /ɑː/ vowel (outside of those accents which also have it in rather, lather) is irregular and has not been conclusively explained.

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