Explain the origin of the following word father

• adoptive father
• baby father
• be gathered to one’s fathers
• biological father
• birth father
• birthing father
• city father
• co-father
• co-father-in-law
• conscript father
• Father Christmas
• father figure
• father hunger
• father in law
• father lasher
• father longlegs
• father of chapel
• Father of Lies
• father of the House
• father superior
• Father Time
• father tongue
• father-bother merger
• father-figure
• father-fucker
• father-in-law
• father-out-law
• father-slayer
• father-to-be
• fatherhood
• fatherland
• fatherless
• fatherlike
• fatherliness
• fatherly
• Father’s Day
• forefather
• foster father
• founding father
• gestational father
• ghostly father
• God the Father
• godfather
• gold star father
• grandfather
• great-grandfather
• he could be her father
• Heavenly Father
• highfather
• how’s your father
• it is a wise child that knows his own father
• like father like son
• like father, like son
• nursing father
• one’s father was born before one
• penny-father
• shrift father
• single father
• step-father
• stepfather
• surrogate father

1. ^ Krapp, George Philip (1925) The English Language in America‎^[1], volume II, New York: Century Co. for the Modern Language Association of America, →OCLC, pages 50-51.
2. ^ Dobson, E. J. (1957) English pronunciation 1500-1700‎^[2], volume II: Phonology, second edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 6, page 467.

father

{{11}}father (

n.

)

O.E.

fæder «father, male ancestor,» from

P.Gmc.

*fader (

Cf. O.S.

fadar,

O.Fris.

feder,

Du.

vader,

O.N.

faðir,

O.H.G.

fater,

Ger.

vater), from

PIE

*pЙ™ter (

Cf. Skt.

pitar-,

Gk.

pater,

L.

pater,

O.Pers.

pita,

O.Ir.

athir «father«), presumably from baby-speak sound like pa. The classic example of Grimm’s Law, where

PIE

«p-» becomes Germanic «f-.» Spelling with -th- (15c.) reflects widespread phonetic shift in

M.E.

that turned -der to -ther in many words; spelling caught up to pronunciation in 1500s (

Cf.

BURDEN (

Cf.

burden), MURDER (

Cf.

murder)).

{{12}}father (

v.

)

c.

1400, from FATHER (

Cf.

father) (

n.

). Related: Fathered; fathering.

Etymology dictionary.
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• Father — Fa ther (f[aum] [th][ e]r), n. [OE. fader, AS. f[ae]der; akin to OS. fadar, D. vader, OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. fa[eth]ir Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. path r, Skr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. p[=a] protect. [root]75, 247. Cf. {Papa},… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Father MC — (born Timothy Brown) was a popular African American rapper for the Uptown Records label in the early 1990s. Discovered and signed by then Uptown executive Sean Puffy Combs, he is best known for introducing the public to Uptown s successful R B… …   Wikipedia

• Father — Fa ther, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fathered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fathering}.] 1. To make one s self the father of; to beget. [1913 Webster] Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To take as one s own child; to adopt;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• father — ► NOUN 1) a male parent. 2) an important figure in the origin and early history of something: Pasteur, the father of microbiology . 3) literary a male ancestor. 4) (often as a title or form of address) a priest. 5) (the Father) (in Christian… …   English terms dictionary

• Father MC — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Father MC es un cantante de new jack swing y hip hop, que entró en el panorama musical con el hit I ll Do 4 U en el año 1990, dentro de su disco debut Father s Day . Dos años después, editó Close to you otro de sus… …   Wikipedia Español

• father — [fä′thər] n. [ME fader < OE fæder, akin to ON fathir, OHG fater, Goth fadar < IE * pətḗr > L pater, Gr patēr, Sans pitár: ult. origin prob. echoic of baby talk, as in PAPA, Hindi bābū] 1. a man who has begotten a child; esp., a man as he …   English World dictionary

• father — [n1] male person who begets children ancestor, begetter, dad, daddy*, forebearer, origin, pa, padre, papa, parent, pop*, predecessor, procreator, progenitor, sire, source; concepts 394,400,414,419,423 Ant. mother father [n2] priest abbé,… …   New thesaurus

• father — index generate, originate, parents, primogenitor, propagate (increase), reproduce Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …   Law dictionary

• Father — Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see Father (disambiguation), Dad (disambiguation), Fatherhood (disambiguation), and Fathering (journal). Father with child A father is defined as a male parent of any type of offspring …   Wikipedia

• father — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ lone (esp. BrE), single ▪ As a single father, he found it a struggle bringing up three children. ▪ married, unmarried ▪ a married father of …   Collocations dictionary

• father —    This would seem to be the natural term for a speaker to use to his or her father, but whether it is used or not depends on individual family practice, which may in turn be influenced by the social and educational level of the family concerned …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb father in English.

Father

A father is a male parent who has raised a child, supplied the sperm through sexual intercourse or sperm donation which grew into a child, and/or donated a body cell which resulted in a clone. The adjective «paternal» refers to a father and comparatively to «maternal» for a mother. The verb «to father» means to procreate or to sire a child from which also derives the noun «fathering». Fathers determine the sex of their child through a sperm cell which either contains an X chromosome, or Y chromosome. Related terms of endearment are dad, daddy, pa, papa, poppa, pop, and pops. A male role-model that children can look up to is sometimes referred to as a father-figure.

Present

I father

you father

he/she/it fathers

we father

you father

they father

Present continuous

I am fathering

you are fathering

he/she/it is fathering

we are fathering

you are fathering

they are fathering

Present perfect

I have fathered

you have fathered

he/she/it has fathered

we have fathered

you have fathered

they have fathered

Present perfect continuous

I have been fathering

you have been fathering

he/she/it has been fathering

we have been fathering

you have been fathering

they have been fathering

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

Past

I fathered

you fathered

he/she/it fathered

we fathered

you fathered

they fathered

Past continuous

I was fathering

you were fathering

he/she/it was fathering

we were fathering

you were fathering

they were fathering

Past perfect

I had fathered

you had fathered

he/she/it had fathered

we had fathered

you had fathered

they had fathered

Past perfect continuous

I had been fathering

you had been fathering

he/she/it had been fathering

we had been fathering

you had been fathering

they had been fathering

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

Future

I will father

you will father

he/she/it will father

we will father

you will father

they will father

Future continuous

I will be fathering

you will be fathering

he/she/it will be fathering

we will be fathering

you will be fathering

they will be fathering

Future perfect

I will have fathered

you will have fathered

he/she/it will have fathered

we will have fathered

you will have fathered

they will have fathered

Future perfect continuous

I will have been fathering

you will have been fathering

he/she/it will have been fathering

we will have been fathering

you will have been fathering

they will have been fathering

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

Conditional

I would father

you would father

he/she/it would father

we would father

you would father

they would father

Conditional continuous

I would be fathering

you would be fathering

he/she/it would be fathering

we would be fathering

you would be fathering

they would be fathering

Conditional perfect

I would have father

you would have father

he/she/it would have father

we would have father

you would have father

they would have father

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been fathering

you would have been fathering

he/she/it would have been fathering

we would have been fathering

you would have been fathering

they would have been fathering

Conditional or «future-in-the-past» tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

Imperative

you father
we let´s father
you father

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

Present Participle

fathering

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

The translations of father from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «father» in English.

The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «father» in the different countries.

List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «father».

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «father» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «father» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia — and decided to take me along for company.

Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Make-A-Wish. We want to make the world a better place for innocent children. I cried my heart out when my father died from cancer. I wish I was smarter, wiser like a doctor, to save these children from dying.

My giving story started with my parents — my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.

My father was short for a man, with a child’s plaything for a name — Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin and a head full of big, wet-looking curls, black as oil. And he had the smile of a scoundrel — the kind of smile that disarmed men and undressed women.

Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron.

Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.

I’m a father; that’s what matters most. Nothing matters more.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

I’m a much better writer for being a father.

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father — conversations with an artist.

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3

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4

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5

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7

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8

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10

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