frost

frost · noun, verb¹

1. Proto-Indo-European*prews-
2. Proto-Indo-European*prustós
3. Proto-Germanic*frustaz
4. Proto-West Germanic*frost
5. Old Englishfrost
6. Middle Englishfrost
7. English todayfrost

From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Froast, Fröäst (“frost”), West Frisian froast (“frost”), Cimbrian bròst, vrost, vròst (“frost”), Dutch vorst (“frost”), German Frost (“frost”), Luxembourgish Frascht (“frost”), Vilamovian fröst (“frost”), Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish frost (“frost”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow”). Related to freeze.

Frost · proper noun²

English, German, Swedish and Danish surname, all from the noun frost.

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