The story
- Old French · derived fromfroit“cold”
- French · borrowed fromFromental“a place name, a commune in Limousin, France”
- English todayFreemantle
From French Fromental (“a place name, a commune in Limousin, France”), from Old French froit (“cold”) + mantel (“cloak, mantle”). The suburb in Hampshire is named after the French village.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.