fraise

fraise · verb¹

1. Old Dutch · derived from*freisōn
2. Middle Dutch · derived fromvreisen
3. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*per-“to attempt, try; risk, peril”
4. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*fraisōną“to attempt, try”
5. Old English · inherited fromfrāsian“to ask, try, tempt”
6. Middle English · inherited fromfraisen
7. English todayfraise

From Middle English fraisen, from Old English frāsian (“to ask, try, tempt”), from Proto-Germanic *fraisōną (“to attempt, try”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to attempt, try; risk, peril”). Cognate with West Frisian freezje (“to fear”), Dutch vrezen (“to fear, dread, be afraid”), German freisen (“to put at risk, endanger, terrify”). Alternatively the Middle English fraisen was borrowed from Middle Dutch vreisen, vresen (“to be afraid; to endanger, threaten, frighten”), from Old Dutch *freisōn, *frēsōn, from the same Proto-West Germanic source above.

fraise · noun, verb²

1. Germanic · derived from
2. Provençal · derived fromfrezar
3. French · borrowed fromfraise“ruff”
4. English todayfraise

Borrowed from French fraise (“ruff”), fraiser; compare French friser (“curl”), perhaps from Provençal frezar; ultimately from Germanic.

fraise · noun³

See froise.

fraise · noun⁴

1. Latin · derived fromfrāga
2. French · borrowed fromfraise“strawberry”
3. English todayfraise

Borrowed from French fraise (“strawberry”), from earlier *fraige, from Latin frāga.

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