frie
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- Traditionally seen as from Old Norse frjó (“seed”), from Proto-Germanic *fraiwą, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per-.
- Alternatively from Old French *frie, collateral form of froi (“spawn”), from froier, freier (“to spawn”), from Latin fricō (“to rub”).
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frie (uncountable)
- fry (young fish)
- (rare, cooking) roe (fish eggs)
- (rare, Late Middle English) offspring, children
- 15th c., “Processus Noe cum filiis [Noah and the Ark]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 28, lines 177–180:
- Deus. Noe, to the and to thi fry / My blyssyng graunt I; / Ye shall wax and multiply, / And fill the erth agane
- God. Noah, I grant my blessing to you and to your offspring. You will grow and multiply and fill the earth again
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- “frī(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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frie (present tense friar, past tense fria, past participle fria, passive infinitive friast, present participle friande, imperative frie/fri)
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