Word Origin Summary

*fifaldǭ 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

• vlinder

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• firvaldur

  Faroese · inherited from

• Falter

  German · derived from

• פֿלאַטערל

  YID · derived from

• fifealde

  English · inherited from

• Fledermaus

  German · derived from

• flaggermus

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• flaggermus

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

What You Can Explore

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