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Fri remote in meaning; akin to  pruîna, ‘rime’ (for *prusvîna);  prušvá, ‘drop, frozen drop, rime.’ Under no circumstances can the word be connected with  frigere.  ',, also ', ,‘frieze (cloth and part of a column),’ only, formerly also in the sense of ‘coarse woollen stuff’; from  frise, , whence  frieze; the  word, like its Romance cognates, is itself derived from ; comp  frise, ‘curled,’  to friz, frizzle,  frisle, ‘hair of the head.’   ,, ‘miliary fever,’  only, from , which represents an earlier.  , ,‘fresh, cool, raw (of a wound),’ from vrisc,  frisc,, ‘new, young, cheerful, active, pert’; corresponding to  fërsc,  fresh,  ferskr, ‘fresh.’ The further origin is obscure; on account of its meaning  priscus (akin to prior, prius) cannot be allied; perhaps  frisc is derived from ,  fruo. The word found its way at an early period into Romance (comp,  fresco,  frais), and into  (frisk).  ,, ‘young wild-boar,’ from vrischinc, vrischlinc, ; a derivative of  with the suffixes -ing, -ling. The frisking (fruscing), ‘beast of offering,’ was adopted by  as fresange, ‘young pig.’  ,, ‘to curl, dress the hair,’ only, from  friser, which is again derived from the cognates mentioned at the end of the article.  ,, ‘period, appointed time, respite,’ from vrist, ,  frist, , , ‘limited period, postponement, space of time’;  frist,  first, ,  frest,  , ‘postponement.’ Probably not derived from the root fri (see ), ‘to love.’ It might more reasonably be connected with the  verbal particle fri in frisahts, if the meaning of the latter were clear. See also  ,, ‘glad, joyous, happy,’ from vrô ( vrôwes, vrouwes),  frô (inflected form frawêr), ‘glad’; corresponding to  frao ( *frawes, frahes),  vro, ‘glad’; a corresponding word in  is wanting. frár, ‘quick, nimble,’ closely agrees in sound; with respect to the meaning, the analogous  and  glad. Thus the sensuous meaning ‘nimble’ might be taken as the starting-point. If the word  be disregarded, ‘gracious, friendly,’ might be assumed as the primary meaning, in order to connect the word with the expressions for ‘master, lord,’ mentioned under. ,, ‘to exult, triumph, shout for joy,’ from vrôlocken (rare), ‘jubilate’; according to  vrô-sanc, ‘song of joy, hallelujah,’ probably a corruption of an earlier form, frôleichen;  and  *vrô-leich would be also  ‘song of joy.’  to frolic is derived from  vrolijk, ‘joyous.’ ,, ‘lordly, holy,’ now only preserved as the first component in archaic compounds; from vrôn, , ‘relating to the master or lord, sacred.’ In  there appears instead of an  *frôn a petrified form frôno, ‘magnificent, divine, sacred,’ which is  a   of frô, ‘lord’ (used only in the vocative). In vrôn appears in numerous compounds for the temporal lord, as well as for the κύριος, ‘the lord,’ κατ ’ ἐξοχήν, ‘Christ’;   vrônlîchnam,, ‘Christ’s body, the host,’  ;  vrônkriuze,  daz frôno chrûzi, ‘the cross of Christ’;  vrônalter, ‘high altar,’ &c.; also vrônhof, ‘mansion,’ vrônwalt, ‘a wood belonging to the lord,’ vrônrëht, ‘public right.’  retained , from  vrôndienst; see. As to frô,‘O lord,’ stress must be laid on its correspondence to  freá, ‘lord,’ as well as  frao. has a form with j, frauja, ( frêgea), ‘lord,’ which is seen in  in the  forms  frouwa,  vrouwe,  *fraujô, With these some connect in  the names of the deities Freyr and Freyja. Whether the stem fraun-, for frawun- and fraujan-, in the sense of ‘gracious, friendly,’ is allied to the, ‘glad,’ remains to be proved. .  ,, ‘compulsory service, villeinage,’ from vrône, , ‘villein socage.’ See.   ', ',, ‘to serve,’ from vrônen (vrœnen) ‘to serve, perform villein socage.’ See ,.  ,, ‘worthy, pious, harmless,’ from vrum (inflected form vrumer), , ‘able, excellent, good, gallant, conducive.’ The  is  a  ;  frum, fruma,  fruma, ‘use, advantage’ (frummen, ‘to