fremful
Appearance
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English fremful (“useful, profitable, beneficial, generous; effective”); equivalent to freme + -ful.
Adjective
[edit]fremful
- useful, profitable, beneficial, effective
- Þeos wyrt mandragora hys fremful. — Herbarium and Medicina de Quadrupedibus, circa 1150
- (The herb mandragon is effective.)
- Þeos wyrt mandragora hys fremful. — Herbarium and Medicina de Quadrupedibus, circa 1150
Related terms
[edit]- freme — benefit, profit, advantage, use
- fremen — to help (someone), to aid, advance, benefit, be profitable to, do good to
- fremfulliche — profitably
- fremfulnesse — beneficial nature, effectiveness
- fremsomness — beneficence
- fremung — effect, good or salutary effect
- fulfremed — fulfilled, accomplished; completed, perfected; complete, perfect.
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]freme (“benefit, profit”) + -ful
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fremful
Declension
[edit]Declension of fremful — Strong
Declension of fremful — Weak
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fremfull”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.