The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*frakunþaz
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited fromfrakunþ
- Old English · inherited fromfracod
- Middle English · inherited fromfraked
- English todayfraked
From Middle English fraked, from Old English fracod, fracoþ, fracuþ (“vile, bad, base, wicked, criminal, impious, filthy, abominable, useless, worthless”), from Proto-West Germanic frakunþ, from Proto-Germanic *frakunþaz, See also Middle English forcouth, English frakel.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.