Etymograph

English

feria

Feria comes from Ecclesiastical Latin fēria ‘festival’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s-yos.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰéh₁s-yosreconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*fēziāsreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfēriae
  4. Ecclesiastical Latinc. 200–1500fēria‘festival’
  5. Englishtodayferia

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰéh₁s-yosreconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*fēziāsreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfēriae
  4. Ecclesiastical Latinc. 200–1500fēria‘festival’
  5. Englishtodayferia

A compound of *dʰeh₁- ‘to do’ + *dʰéh₁s ‘god, godhead, deity’

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to do’

Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s ‘god, godhead, deity’

Linked words

through Latin fēriae

fair, fayre, 6 more

Another origin of feria

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰéh₁s-yosreconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*fēziāsreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfēriae
  4. Spanishc. 1500–presentferia‘fair (celebration)’
  5. Englishtodaysame form

Today it means

noun A weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s-yos / feria

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