Senso (Inglese)

Opposto di
constrained, restricted, bound, enslaved, imprisoned, unfree, authoritarian, proprietary, nonfree, see at nonfree, blocked, obstructed, common, nonproprietary
Frequenza

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Pronunciato come (IPA)
/fɹiː/
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

From Middle English free, fre, freo, from Old English frēo (ā€œfreeā€), from Proto-West Germanic *frÄ«, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz (ā€œbeloved, not in bondageā€), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (ā€œpleased, lovedā€), from *preyH- (ā€œto please, loveā€). Related to friend. cognates, etc Germanic cognates include Scots fre (ā€œfreeā€), Saterland Frisian frƤi (ā€œfreeā€), West Frisian frij (ā€œfreeā€), Dutch vrij (ā€œfreeā€), German frei (ā€œfreeā€), Low German free (ā€œfreeā€), Luxembourgish frƤi (ā€œfreeā€), Vilamovian frȧj (ā€œfreeā€), Yiddish פֿרײַ (fray, ā€œfreeā€), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish fri (ā€œfreeā€), Faroese frĆ­ur (ā€œfreeā€), Gothic š†š‚šŒ“šŒ¹šƒ (freis, ā€œfreeā€). Other cognates include Sanskrit ą¤Ŗą„ą¤°ą¤æą¤Æ (priyĆ”-, ā€œbelovedā€). Germanic and Celtic are the only Indo-European language branches in which the PIE word with the meaning of "dear, beloved" acquired the additional meaning of "free" in the sense of "not in bondage". This was an extension of the idea of "characteristic of those who are dear and beloved", in other words friends and tribe members (in contrast to unfree inhabitants from other tribes and prisoners of war, many of which were among the slaves – compare the Latin use of liberi to mean both "free persons" and "children of a family").

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