freme
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
freme
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Latin edit
Verb edit
freme
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old English freme, fremu (“advantage, gain, benefit”).
Noun edit
freme (plural fremes)
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
- fremen — To help (someone), to aid, advance, benefit, be profitable to, do good to
- fremful — Beneficial
- fremfulliche — Profitably
- fremfulnesse — Beneficial nature, effectiveness
- fremsomness — Beneficence
- fremung — Effect, good or salutary effect
- fulfremed — Fulfilled, accomplished; completed, perfected; complete, perfect.
References edit
- “frēme, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *frami- (“going forth”). Akin to Proto-Germanic *framaz (“forward”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
freme
- vigorous, flourishing
- good, strenuous, bold
- Fremu folces cwén. ― The folk's bold queen. (Beowulf)
Declension edit
Declension of freme — Strong
Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
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Nominative | freme | fremu, fremo | freme |
Accusative | fremne | freme | freme |
Genitive | fremes | fremre | fremes |
Dative | fremum | fremre | fremum |
Instrumental | freme | fremre | freme |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | freme | frema, freme | fremu, fremo |
Accusative | freme | frema, freme | fremu, fremo |
Genitive | fremra | fremra | fremra |
Dative | fremum | fremum | fremum |
Instrumental | fremum | fremum | fremum |
Declension of freme — Weak
Noun edit
freme f (nominative plural fremena)
- fremu, advantage, gain, benefit, profit, good
- Ðæs we mágon fremena gewinnan. ― Of what we may advantages gain.
Derived terms edit
- fremednes (“accomplishment, fulfilment, effect”)
- fremful (“useful, profitable, beneficial, fremeful”)
- fremfullīċe (“efficaciously, successfully”)
- fremfulnes (“utility, profit”)
- fremman (“to further, advance, support, avail, benefit, do good”)
- fremlīċ (“profitable”)
- fremming (“purpose, effect, performance, progress”)
- fremsum (“beneficent, benign, kind, gracious”)
- fremsumlīċ (“benignant, kind”)
- fremsumllīċe (“benignantly, kindly”)
- fremsumnes (“benefit, benignity, kindness, liberality”)
Descendants edit
- English: frim
References edit
- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “freme”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “freme”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.