frist

See also: Frist

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɹɪst/
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English *frist, frest, first, furst, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English fyrst, fierst, first (“period, space of time, time, respite, truce”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *fristiz, *frestą (“date, appointed time”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *pres-, *per- (“forward, forth, over, beyond”). Cognate with North Frisian ferst, frest (“period, time”), German Frist (“period, deadline, term”), Swedish frist (“deadline, respite, reprieve, time-limit”), Icelandic frestur (“period”). See also first.

Noun

frist (countable and uncountable, plural frists)

1. (obsolete) A certain space or period of time; respite.
2. (UK dialectal) Time allotted for repayment; a term (in which a debt is to be repaid); a delay; respite; suspension.

   His was a short frist (He had a short life).

   • a1578, Robert Lindsay, The Cronicles of Scotland

     Yitt they caused the lordis that war vpoun on the panell, that schould have thoalled judgment, to find cautioun everie ane of thame, vnder the paine of certane soumes, to answer at ane certane apoynted to thame. Yitt all thir lordis war verrie blyth, think and that all evill was guid of frist, in speciall the lord David Lindsay was so blyth at his brothers sayingis, that he burst furth, saying to him: "Verrilie brother, yea have fyne pyatt wordis. I wold not have trowed, be St Amarie, that yea had sick wordis".

   • 1721, James Kelly, Scottish Proverbs:

     All Ills are good a frist.

   • 1888, Murray's Magazine:

     My time is short, my frist is o'er, and I have much to say.

3. (UK dialectal) Credit; trust.
   • 1492–1503, Andrew Halyburton, Andrew Halyburton's ledger:

     I sald tham to fryst to a man of the Hag.

     I sold them to frist to a man of the Hague.

   • a1568, Sir David Lindsay, Ane Discriptioun of Peder Coffeis:

     Ane dyvour coffe, that wirry hen, / Distroyis the honor of our natioun, / Takis gudis to frist fra fremmit men, / And brekis his obligatioun.

     One bankrupt rouge , that wirry hen, / destroys the honor of our nation / takes goods to frist from fremd men, / and breaks his obligation.

   • c.1568, William Lauder, The Lamenatioun of The Pure:

     Credit and frist is quyte away, / No thing is lent bot for usure; […]

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English *fristen, frysten, fresten, firsten, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English *fyrstan (“to defer, delay, put off”), from fyrst, fierst, first (“period, space of time, time, respite, truce”). See Etymology 1. Cognate with Low German versten, German fristen (“to eke out”), Danish friste (“to sustain, support, experience, tempt”), Icelandic fresta (“to delay”).

Verb

frist (third-person singular simple present frists, present participle fristing, simple past and past participle fristed)

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To sell (goods) on trust or credit.

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2. (UK dialectal) To grant respite.
3. (UK dialectal) To give a debtor credit or time for payment.
4. (transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal) To defer; postpone.

Derived terms

• fristing

Anagrams

• FTIRs, First, SIRTF, first, frits, rifts

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Danish

Noun

frist

1. deadline

Declension

Declension of frist

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	frist	fristen	frister	fristerne
genitive	frists	fristens	fristers	fristernes

Synonyms

• deadline

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frɪst/

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Adjective

frist

1. (deprecated template usage) Superlative form of fris

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse frest n

Noun

frist m (definite singular fristen, indefinite plural frister, definite plural fristene)

1. deadline

References

• “frist” in The Bokmål Dictionary.