fostor

Old English

Alternative forms

• fēster, fōster, fōstur

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fōstr, from Proto-Germanic *fōstrą, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoːs.tor/

Noun

fōstor n

1. fostering, nourishing, rearing, feeding
2. food, nourishment, provisions

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	fōstor	—
accusative	fōstor	—
genitive	fōstres	—
dative	fōstre	—

Derived terms

• fōstorbearn (“foster child”)
• fōstorbrōþor (“foster brother”)
• fōstorċild (“foster child”)
• fōstorfæder (“foster father, nourisher”)
• fōstorland (“land assigned for the procuring of provisions”)
• fōstorlēan (“remuneration for raising a foster child”)
• fōstorling (“foster child, fosterling”)
• fōstormann (“foster man, bondsman, security”)
• fōstormōdor (“foster mother”)
• fōstornōþ (“pasturage, pasture”)
• fōstorsweostor (“foster sister”)
• fōstre (“fosterer, nurse”)
• fōstrian (“to foster, nourish”)
• fōstring (“native, disciple”)

Descendants

Middle English: foster, fostre, voster, fostær, forster

• English: foster
• Scots: foster

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “fōstor”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.