friunt

Old Dutch

Alternative forms

• friund

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz.

Noun

friunt m (nominative plural friunde or friund)

1. friend; loved one

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: vrient
  • Dutch: vriend, vrind
    • Afrikaans: vriend
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: frindi
    • Javindo: friend
    • Jersey Dutch: vrînt
    • Negerhollands: vriend, vrient
    • Petjo: pring (archaic)
  • Limburgish: vröndj

Further reading

• “friunt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz, from *frijōną, from Proto-Indo-European *priHós, from *preyH- + *-ós.

Noun

friunt m

1. friend

Declension

declension of friunt

	singular	plural
nominative	friunt	friunt, friuntā, friunta
accusative	friunt	friunt, friuntā, friunta
genitive	friuntes	friunto
dative	friunte	friuntum,friuntun,friunton
instrumental	-	-

Descendants

• Middle High German: vriunt
  • Alemannic German: Fründ
  • Bavarian: Freind
  • Cimbrian: vròint, bròint (Mezzaselva)
  • Central Franconian: Frönd, Frend, Frind (Moselle Franconian), Frönk (Ripuarian, now chiefly western dialects), Fründ (Kölsch)
    • Hunsrik: Freind
    • Luxembourgish: Frënd
  • German: Freund
  • Vilamovian: frajnd
  • Volhynian German: Freind
  • Yiddish: פֿרײַנד (fraynd)

References

1. Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition
2. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014