faderles
Middle English
/ˈfadərlɛːs/
adj
Definitions
- Lacking or without a living/active father or male parent; fatherless.
- (rare) Having never had a father; intrinsically lacking a father.
- (rare) Having no lord or authority (either earthly or heavenly).
Etymology
Inherited from Old English fæderlēas inherited from Proto-Germanic *fadērlausaz affix from Middle English fader (father).
Origin
Middle English
fader
Gloss
father
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
父
Emoji
🎅
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- father English
- fatherless English
- fatherlessness English
- *fadērlausaz Proto-Germanic
- fæder Old English
- fæderleas Old English
- fæderlēas Old English
- fader Middle English
- faderes Middle English
- faderhode Middle English
- faders Middle English
- fadres Middle English
- godfader Middle English
- lorfadyr Middle English
- faterlōs Old High German
- faither Scots
- vather Yola