name-faither
Scots
Alternative forms
- name-father
- name-faider (Shetland)
Etymology
name (“name”) + faither (“father”)
Noun
name-faither (plural name-faithers)
- The man after whom one has been named
Further reading
- “name-father”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
- “name-faider” in John J Graham’s English-Shetland Word List