Vater

Borrowed from German Vater.

Vater (plural Vaters)

1. A surname from German.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Vater is the 37076^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 602 individuals. Vater is most common among White (95.85%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Vater”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

• Trave, avert, tarve, trave

• Vatter (obsolete, except informally, representing the regional pronunciation)

From Middle High German vater, from Old High German fater, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. Germanic cognates include Dutch vader, Low German Vader, English father, Danish fader, Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌳𐌰𐍂 (fadar).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaːtər/, /ˈfaːtɐ/, [ˈfɑːtʰɐ] (Germany)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈfatər/, /ˈfatɐ/ (Rhenish, Westphalia, Swabian)
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːtɐ/ (Austria, Southern Germany, Switzerland)

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Vater m (strong, genitive Vaters, plural Väter, diminutive Väterchen n)

1. father

   Coordinate terms: (by birth order) Sohn m; (by sex) Mutter f

   Mein Vater erklärt mir jeden Sonntag unsere neun Planeten.

   My father explains to me our nine planets every Sunday.

• Gevatter

• → English: Vater
• → Central Franconian: Vatter
• → Polish: fater, fader

• “Vater”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Vater” in Duden online
• “Vater” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Vater”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
• Vater on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de