English

fearer

From fear + -er.

Formed from fear + -er

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘to go through’

Proto-Germanic *fērō ‘danger’

Old English fǣr ‘calamity’

Middle English feer

English fear

Today it means

noun One who fears, especially one who fears God; a worshipper.

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