folwere

• folewer, folouar, folower, folwer
• feoleware, folȝere (Early Middle English); folhere (AB language)
• felower (Leicestershire); folware (Promptorium Parvulorum)
• folouer, foluar (Northern); folowar (Early Scots)

Inherited from Old English folgere, from Proto-West Germanic *folgārī; by surface analysis, folwen (“to be after”) +‎ -ere (agent noun suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔlwər(ə)/, /ˈfɔliu̯ər(ə)/, /ˈfɔlɔu̯ər(ə)/

folwere (plural folweres)

1. An attendant or adherent; one serving a person (or less commonly, a concept)
2. (Early Scots) A plaintiff or complainant; a party alleging legal wrong.
3. (rare) Something that comes after or succeeds another thing.
4. (rare) An emulator or imitator; one taking another as an example.
5. (rare) A pursuer, looker, or seeker (after a person)

• English: follower
  • → German: Follower
  • → French: follower
  • → Hindi: फ़ॉलोअर (fŏloar)
  • → Japanese: フォロワー (forowā)
  • → Korean: 팔로워 (pallowo)
  • → Russian: фолло́вер (follóver)
  • → Ukrainian: фоловер (folover)
• Middle Scots: followar

• “folwer, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “followar(e, folowar(e, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.