"feren" as a supposed German descendent of farjaną
Hey,
the word "feren" does not exist in Neuhochdeutsch, yet you keep re-adding it to the page for farjaną (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/farjan%C4%85).
--79.245.68.170 10:53, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
I must say that I dare doubt this word too, for my knowledge of German unlike with the other languages has reached a state of completion. And I cannot find usages of it in any spelling on Google Books which I should as Germany has invented printing with movable types. The lexicographic resources I have consulted for New High German and Middle High German lack it strangely too, is this possible for a word from Proto-Germanic? I could imagine it as as a dialectal word at the most. So I find a fêren “rudern” in the Swiss Idioticon the identity of which I cannot insinuate nor deny however. And why is Middle Low German varen in the descendant list when it is from *faraną, identical to the well-known High German fahren? Ghost-word alarm.