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Fop most frequently considered to be partly translated and partly borrowed from  pulletrus, poledrus,  ‘colt,’ which signifies ‘rack’ in  and  (potro), “like  equuleus from equus, because it bore some resemblance to a horse.”  poledrum is derived again from  πῶλος, ‘foal.’ “The wooden horse and the wooden ass — frames with a sharp-edged back, upon which the delinquents were compelled to ride — were favourite instruments of torture.” ,, ‘to quiz, rally, banter,’ early only, from slang. ,, from the  vordern,  fordarôn, ‘to demand, request, challenge, summon’; corresponding to  vorderen; a specifically  form,  unknown to the other dialects, yet the word found its way from  into  and. It is a derivative of.  ,, from the  vürdern, vurdern,  furdiren (also fordarôn), ‘to promote, take an active part in, help’; like , from.   ,, ‘trout,’ with a foreign accent, for the genuine dialectal fórelle, still existing;  of an older  (whence , );   fórelle, fórle, forhen, forhe, , ‘trout,’  forhana, , ‘trout’;  also  forna, furnie,  fôrne. Probably not from, foraha, ‘the fish living near firs, in the brooks of fir forests.’ It is probably connected with the Aryan  in the cognate languages, meaning ‘spotted, speckled.’  forhana, from pre- prknâ;   pṛ́çni, ‘speckled,’ and  περκνός, ‘livid, dusky’ (πέρκη, ‘perch’).   ,, see.   ,, ‘form, fashion, pattern, mould,’ from (post-classical), forme, form, , ‘form, shape,’ from  and  forma.   ,, ‘formula, form,’ late , from formula.  ,, ‘to search, investigate,’ from vorsken,  forskôn (rarely  forspôn, with assimilation), ‘to demand, ask’; a form peculiar to , unknown to the remaining dialects, and pointing to  *faúrskôn, *faúrhskôn. The sk is a derivative like sc. *faúrskôn would be the normal form for faúrhskôn, like waúrstw, ‘labour,’ for waúrhstw. The root forh is identical with the  root of, from the pre- root pṛk (see ). An sc derivative is also seen in poscere (for porscere), ‘to demand,’ as well as in the  root pṛch, ‘to ask.’  , ‘forest, wood,’ from vorst,  forst, , ‘wood’; also the  variants vŏrëst, fŏrest, fŏrest, fŏreist (but probably not fôrest), , ‘wood, forest’; these forms are certainly of Romance origin, —  and Romance foresta, whence  forêt. It is questionable whether the forst, vorst,, are also derived from Romance. Opinions are divided on this point; some etymologists connect the word with  foris, ‘outside’; others more probably refer  forst to  foraha, ‘fir’; hence forst would be  ‘fir wood.’  forst might also be connected with  faírguni, ‘mountain.’  *faúrst for faúrhst, ‘mountain forest,’ would have to be construed like the assumed  *faúrskôn for *faúrhskôn, mentioned under.  ,, ‘forwards, continuously, away,’ from vort, , ‘forwards, further, continuously.’  *ford is wanting; it would correspond to  forth,  forþ,  forth;  *faúrþ, and its  faúrþis, , ‘formerly’? , forþ, from an earlier frþo, pṛto, is allied to. See, , , and.  ,, ‘freight, load, cargo,’ only, from  fracht;   vracht,  fraught, freight; it signified  ‘reward, charge for conveyance,’ and afterwards ‘the load itself.’   frêht (probably implying  *frá-aihts), ‘earnings, reward,’ gifrêhtôn, ‘to merit’; the restricted meaning of the modern dialects is seen first in  and , and also passed into Romance —  fret. .   ,, ‘dress coat,’ only;  frac, ‘dress coat’; its etymology and native source obscure, hardly to be sought for in  froc, ‘monk’s habit.’   frock. <section end="Frack" /> ,, ‘to ask, inquire, interrogate,’ from the  vrâgen,  frâgên (with the rare variant frâhên); corresponding to  frâgôn,  vragen; confined to the  of  ( *frêhan, *frêgan), with the meaning ‘to ask,’ from a  root frē̆h, from which the   frah