færbu

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Old English

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Etymology

Origin uncertain, possibly borrowed but apparently from Proto-Germanic *farwō, *farhwō (“colour”), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“mottled, coloured”). Compare Old High German farwa, farawa (“colour, blee”).

This word is the result of a mistaken division of words. The OE passage in the Bosworth-Toller dictionary reads: "Hí habbað blióh and fær bú ungelíce (cf. hí sint swíþe ungelíces híwes and ungelíce faraþ" -- the former sentence translates as "he has colour and mode of going both unlike", i.e. he differs both in his colour and in his mode of going (of Jesus).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfær.bu/, [ˈfærˠ.bu]

Noun

færbu f

  1. colour
    Habbaþ færbu ungelīce and mǣgwlitas ― they have colour and species unlike
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