vriene

Yola

Alternative forms

• friend

Etymology

From Middle English frend, freond, from Old English frēond (“friend, relative, lover”, literally “loving-[one]”), from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz (“lover, friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“to like, love”).

Noun

vriene (plural vrienes or frends)

1. friend
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 13:

     yer name waz ee-kent var ee vriene o' livertie, an He fo brake ye neckarès o' zlaves.

     your name was known to us as the friend of liberty, and he who broke the fetters of the slave.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114