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Fre ; derived from an earlier *fraëȥȥan, by syncope of the unaccented a,   fraïtan, ‘to consume’ ( to fret, ‘to cut away’), with the similarly shortened   frêt,  frêtun, for *fraét, *fraêtun. The verbal prefix occurs in other cases in  as fir, far,  and  ver, and from ëȥȥen combined with this ver a new verb, verëȥȥen, is formed in  with the same meaning as frëȥȥen, which is etymologically  to it. For the verbal prefix see,.  ,, ‘little ferret,’ of an earlier  , , ‘ferret,’ occurs in  from Romance;   furetto,  furet ( ferret),  furetum, furetus. ‘ferret,’ which is based upon early furo, ‘polecat,’  to  fur, ‘thief.’   ,, ‘joy, pleasure, delight,’ from the  vröude, vreude,  fręwida, ; akin to ,  vröuwen,  frouwen; see. For the suffix see, , ,.   ,, from the  vriunt(d),  friunt, , ‘friend, relative’;   friunt, ‘friend, relative,’  vriend,  freónd,  friend,  frijônds. frijônds, and hence also the other words, are from an  and   frijôn, ‘to love,’  freógan, ‘to love’ (see ); therefore the word, signifying  ‘lover,’ is used in many dialects (even yet in, , , , , and ) for ‘relative.’ As to the formation, see ,.   ,, ‘wanton offence, outrage, sacrilege,’ from vręvel, , , ‘boldness, presumption, arrogance, insolence, violence,’  fravilî, , ‘boldness, daring, insolence’;   from the   fravili, fręvili,  vręvele, ‘bold, proud, daring, insolent,’  , ;   frœfele, ‘daring,’  wrevel, ‘outrage.’ Connected with the   are two or three difficult forms which furnish a hint for discovering the etymology. fraballîcho, with b, and frabarî,, ‘audacia,’ with b and r. Parallel to vręvel there exists a form vor-ęvel, ver-ęvel, corresponding to  ver-ëȥȥen, compared with vr-ëȥȥen. We have probably to assume a *fraabls, or rather *fra afls, and with this  afl, , ‘power, strength,’ and  avalôn, ‘to torment oneself, work,’ are closely connected. In fra  was preserved as a fully accented prefix in, as in frá-bald, ‘daring,’ from bald, ‘bold.’ See  (a compound containing  fra). —   ,, ‘sacrilegiously,’ first occurs in , formed like , , &c., from the  vrevele, but with a change of the suffix l into n.  ,, ‘peace, tranquillity, quiet,’ from vride, , ‘peace, quiet, protection,’  fridu, , ‘peace’; corresponding to  frithu, ,  freoþo, friþu, ,  friþr, , ‘peace’; the common  word for ‘peace.’ Found in  only in Friþareiks,  to  ( ‘prince of peace’); akin to  gafriþôn, ‘to reconcile.’ The  form friþu- contains the suffix Þu like  dau-þu-s, ‘death’; þrítu-s, from an Aryan root pri,  fri,  ‘to love, spare’; ,  ‘state of love, forbearance’ (see ). It is worth noticing that first coined a word for ‘peace,’ for which no common term can be found in the Aryan languages, and the same may be said of ‘.’ See.   ,, ‘churchyard’; the sense is not exactly ‘peaceful enclosure,’ but rather ‘an enclosed place’; akin to  vride, ‘enclosure, a place hedged in’;  vrîthof,  frîthof, ‘enclosed space around a church,’ must have given rise to. In their origin and  vrît-hof are of course allied; yet vrît-hof must be connected chiefly with  frei-djan, ‘to spare,’  frîten, ‘to cherish, love, protect’; akin also to.  ,, ‘to freeze, feel cold, be chilled,’ from the  vriesen (, gevrorn),  friosan ( gifroran); the change of s into r has obtained in all parts of the verb, yet s has been preserved in  and. vriezen, freósan,  to freeze,  frjósa;  *friusan is wanting, but may be inferred with certainty from frius,, ‘frost, cold.’ The change of s into r is also shown by  freórig, , ‘freezing, frosty, stiff,’  frer,  , ‘frost, cold.’ The  root is freus, fruz, from the pre- root preus, prū̆s. It appears to lie at the base of prûrio for *prusio, ‘to itch,’ if the connecting link in meaning is to be found in the ‘piercing, itching, burning nature of frost.’  has a root pruš, ‘to inject a substance,’ which is more