Fresin

Old High German

Etymology

From Old Saxon *Frēso or Old Frisian Frēsa, Frīsa + -in (fem. suffix) from Proto-West Germanic *-ini

Proper noun

Fresin f

1. (Bavarian) a female given name, equivalent to German Friesin

Declension

Declension of Fresin (feminine i/jō-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	Fresin	Fresinnā
accusative	Fresina, Fresine	Fresinnā
genitive	Fresinna	Fresinnōno
dative	Fresinnu	Fresinnōn, Fresinnōm

The nominative singular of the jō-stems (Proto-West Germanic *-ī) was originally uninflected like the ō-stems; and the accusative form usually took its place. The old nominative singular is preserved in fem. personal names, and in the derivatives ending in *-inī and *-unjō. The jō-stems show in the oldest documents instead of -jō the ending -e and retain the j before o, u. From the 9th C. onwards, their inflection entirely coincides with that of the ō-stems, with -a replacing -e.