Masculine
Meaning

Frequency

A1
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

frind

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

koleeg

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

speezel

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

speezi

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/frɔʏ̯nt/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Middle High German vriunt, from Old High German friunt, from Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz (“lit., the loving one; lover, loved one, friend”), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *preyH-. Cognate with Dutch vriend, German Low German Fründ, Luxembourgish Frënd, West Frisian freon, English friend, Danish frænde (“relative”), Faroese frændi (“friend, relative”), Icelandic frændi (“relative”), Norwegian Bokmål frende (“relative”), Norwegian Nynorsk frende (“relative”), Swedish frände (“relative”), Welsh ffrind (“friend”), Yiddish פֿרײַנד (fraynd, “friend”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌾𐍉𐌽𐌳𐍃 (frijōnds, “friend”), Old English frēond (“friend, lover”), Old Norse frændi (“friend, relative”).

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