frêne

Inherited from Middle French fresne, from Old French fresne, fraisne, from Latin fraxinus, from *bʰr̥Hǵ-s-inos, adjective of Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵos (“birch”).

• IPA^(key): /fʁɛn/

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• Homophone: freine

frêne m (plural frênes)

1. ash tree

• frêne on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “frêne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• enfer

From Old French fresne, fraisne, from Latin fraxinus.

frêne m (plural frênes)

1. (Jersey) ash tree
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 538:

     Il vaut mûx pour ùn houme d'aver un percheux dans son ménage qu'un frêne sur s'n héritage.

     It is better for a man to have a lazy fellow in his service than an ash-tree on his estate.