Farther
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Old English feorr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ver, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit para and Greek pera ‘further’.
wiktionary
Variant of further. [1]
etymonline
farther (adj.)
late 14c., "front;" variant of further (adj.). From 1510s as "additional;" 1560s as "more remote."
farther (adv.)
15c. alteration of Middle English ferther (c. 1300), a variant of further (adv.). There is no historical basis for the notion that farther is of physical distance and further of degree or quality.