Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/fedwōr

Etymology
From pre-Grimm, with an irregular consonant change from , the neuter form of. The consonant change was probably caused by the influence of the *p- in the word for "five",. The expected outcome would have been.

Numeral

 * 1) four

Inflection
The declension for all three genders is identical.

Descendants
In North and West Germanic, the form lost its *-d-, from which the attested forms are descended. In Old Norse, this would have given *fjór, but plural adjective endings were then added to this form. Though the middle consonant is only preserved in Gothic, a fossil is found in.