English
fatherliness
From fatherly + -ness.
A compound of fatherly + -ness
Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr ‘father’
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Proto-Germanic *fadurlīkaz ‘fatherly, paternal’
Proto-West Germanic *faderlīk
Old English fæderlīċ ‘fatherly, paternal’
Middle English faderly
English fatherly
Today it means
noun The property of being fatherly.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / fatherliness