free

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Betekenis (Engels)

Synoniemen

set at liberty

get free

let escape

doing as one likes

without pay

free-of-charge

not involved

free people

freedom-loving

allow to go

at liberty

allow to escape

at no charge

foot-loose

come loose

cost free

free oneself

free-soil

have free time

let go of

make real

non-working

on his own initiative

out in the open

set loose

be completed

without reason

no charge

not busy

being free

go-as-you-please

cost-free

not restrained

not tied

without bonds

without fetters

non-slave

predicative or adverbial position

freely available

free rendition

liberate relieve exempt

without trying

abstain

become free

enhance

leaving off

not in use

make free

Frequentie

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Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/fɹiː/
Etymologie (Engels)

From Middle English free, fre, freo, from Old English frēo (“free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frī, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz (“beloved, not in bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“dear, beloved”), from *preyH- (“to love, please”). Related to friend. cognates, etc Germanic cognates include West Frisian frij (“free”), Dutch vrij (“free”), Low German free (“free”), German frei (“free”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian fri (“free”). Other cognates include Russian приятель (prijatelʹ, “friend”) and Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá-, “beloved”). 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"). The verb comes from Middle English freen, freoȝen, from Old English frēon, frēoġan (“to free; make free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frijōn, from Proto-Germanic *frijōną, from Proto-Indo-European *preyH-.

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