fetter – English noun declension

English noun forms of fetter

Noun: fetter
Singularfetter
Pluralfetters

Sample Sentences

  • Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound. [1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, Prologue:]
  • He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake. [1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 6, in Frankenstein, archived from the original on 08 May 2013:]
  • That was the turning-point of my life. I broke my fetters, and I fought a hard fight for a new career … [1910, Erwin Rosen, “Prolog”, in In the Foreign Legion, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2012:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English feter, from Old English feter, Proto-West Germanic *fetur, from Proto-Germanic *feturaz (“fetter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”). Related to foot.
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Dutch veter (“cable, chain, hawser; bond, fetter”), Faroese fjøtur (“fetter”), Icelandic fjötur (“fetter”), Swedish fjätter (“fetter, shackle”); also Irish feadh (“extent, length”), feá (“fathom”), Scottish Gaelic feadh (“extent, length; fathom”), Latgalian pāda (“foot”), Latvian pēda (“foot”), Lithuanian pėda (“foot”), Belarusian па́даць (pádacʹ, “to fall”), Bulgarian па́дам (pádam, “to grop, fall”), Czech padat (“to fall”), Polish padać (“to fall”), Russian па́дать (pádatʹ, “to fall”), Serbo-Croatian padati, падати (“to fall”), Slovene padati (“to fall”), Ukrainian па́дати (pádaty, “to fall”), Latin peior, pejor (“worse”), Ancient Greek πέδη (pédē, “fetter, shackle; anklet, bangle”), Armenian ետ (et, “back, backward”), հետ (het, “back; with”), Ossetian фестӕг (festæg), фистӕг (fistæg, “pedestrian”), Old Persian 𐎱𐎿𐎫𐎡 (p-s-t-i, “foot soldier, infantryman”), Sanskrit पद्यते (padyate, “to fall, topple; to perish”), Hittite 𒁉𒂊𒁕𒀭 (“place; floor, ground”). See: Middle English Nouns 'feter', Old English Nouns 'feter', Dutch Nouns 'veter', Faroese Nouns 'fjøtur', Icelandic Nouns 'fjötur', Swedish Nouns 'fjätter', Irish Nouns 'feadh', Latvian Nouns 'pēda', Bulgarian Nouns 'па́дам', Latin Nouns 'peior', Ancient Greek Nouns 'πέδη'.

Verbs referencing "fetter"

Dutch Nouns veter.