Where does “feortan” come from?

feortan (Old English) comes from Proto-Germanic fertaną, from Proto-Indo-European perd- — to fart loudly, pass gas, break wind.

feortan (Old English): to fart

Definitions

  1. to fart

Ancestry of “feortan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicfertanąto break wind, fart
2Proto-Indo-Europeanperd-to fart loudly, pass gas, break wind

Words derived from “feortan”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European perd- →Every word from Proto-Germanic fertaną →