fædrene
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Danish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun[edit]
fædrene c
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Danish fædherne, from the noun fæþrini, Old Norse faðerni (“paternal side”), derived from Proto-Germanic *fadrīnaz (“paternal”).
Adjective[edit]
fædrene (neuter fædrene, plural and definite singular attributive fædrene)
- ancestral
- 1836, Homer, translated by Christian Wilster, The Iliad, page 148:
- Her har du hentet din Død, og til Verden du kom ved Gygaias / Søe, der ligger din fædrene Gaard, dine fædrene Jorder / Hist ved den fiskrige Hyllos og Hermos's rivende Vande.
- Here you got your death, and to the world you came by Gygaia's / Lake, there lies your ancestral farm, your ancestral lands / By the fish-rich Hyllos and the coursing waters of Hermos.