English
fiar
Uncertain, perhaps from fee + -ar, compare feuar.
Formed from fee + -ar
Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- ‘livestock’
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Proto-Germanic *fehu ‘livestock’
Proto-West Germanic *fehu ‘livestock’
Old English feoh ‘cattle, property, money’
Middle English fee
English fee
The story
Uncertain, perhaps from fee + -ar, compare feuar.uncertain The source flags this step as uncertain.
Today it means
noun One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a liferenter.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / fiar