The story
- Old French · derived fromrefrescher“to refresh”
- Middle English · inherited fromrefreshen
- English todayrefresh
From Middle English refreshen, refreschen, refrisschen, from Old French refrescher (“to refresh”) (modern French rafraîchir), equivalent to re- + fresh.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchrefrescher all →
refreshment
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.