Etymograph

English

feuterer

Feuterer may come from German Fütterer ‘feeder’.

  1. Germanc. 1650–presentFütterer‘feeder’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation c. 1621–1623feuterer

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Germanc. 1650–presentFütterer‘feeder’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation c. 1621–1623feuterer

Earliest quotation: c. 1621–1623, Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […]: “You yeoman phevvterer, conduct mee to / The Lady…”

The story

Either from German Fütterer (‘feeder’) (see füttern), or corrupted from Old French vautrier, vaultrier, from vaultre, viautre (‘a kind of hound’), from Latin vertragus, vertraga (‘a greyhound’). The last is of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *uɸor- (‘over’) + *tregess (‘foot’).

Every English word from German Fütterer

Today it means

noun A keeper of dogs, especially of greyhounds.

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

Etymograph / German Fütterer / feuterer

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