Word Origin Summary

*fedurtehun is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• vierzehn

  German · inherited from

• fjorten

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• fiuwartein

  Old Saxon · inherited from

• fiughurtan

  Swedish · derived from

• fjorton

  Swedish · inherited from

• vêrtîn

  Jersey Dutch · inherited from

• フォーティーン

  Japanese · borrowed from

• fotin

  Tok Pisin · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root