fress

The story

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*fraetaną“to eat up”
2. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*fraetan
3. Old High German · derived fromfrëȥȥan“to eat up”
4. Middle High German · derived fromvrëȥȥen
5. Yiddish · borrowed fromפֿרעסן
6. German · borrowed fromfressen“to eat, devour, gobble”
7. English todayfress

From German fressen (“to eat, devour, gobble”) and/or Yiddish פֿרעסן (fresn), both from Middle High German vrëȥȥen, from Old High German frëȥȥan (“to eat up”), from Proto-West Germanic *fraetan, from Proto-Germanic *fraetaną (“to eat up”), from *fra- (intensive and perfective prefix) + *etaną (“to eat”), equivalent to for- + eat. Cognate with Old English fretan (“to devour”). Doublet of fret.

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