friunt

Old Dutch

Alternative forms

• frient

Etymology

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

Noun

friunt m

1. friend; loved one

Inflection

Declension of friunt (consonant stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	friunt	friunt
accusative	friunt	friunt
genitive	friundes	friundo
dative	friunde	friundon

Declension of friunt (masculine i-stem noun)

case	singular	plural
nominative	friunt	friundi
accusative	friunt	friundi
genitive	friundis	friundo
dative	friundi	friundin, friundon

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

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *friund.

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	-	-

Derived terms

• friuntlaos, friuntlōs
• friuntlīcho, friuntlīh

Descendants

• Middle High German: vriunt, (all chiefly Central German) vrünt, vrunt, vrūnt
  • Alemannic German: Fründ
  • Bavarian: Freind
    • Cimbrian: vròint, bròint (Mezzaselva)
  • Central Franconian: Frönd, Frönk, Vrönk, Fründ, Frind, Frend, Freind
    • Hunsrik: Freind
    • Luxembourgish: Frënd
  • German: Freund
  • Vilamovian: fraeind, frajnd
  • Volhynian German: Freind
  • Yiddish: פֿרײַנד (fraynd)

References

• Wright, Joseph (1906), An Old High German Primer‎^[1], second edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[2] (in German), 6th edition