friunt

Old Dutch

Alternative forms

frient

Etymology

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

Noun

friunt m

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

From Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz, from *frijōną, from Proto-Indo-European *priHós, from *preyH- + *-ós.

Noun

friunt m

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: frajnd
- Volhynian German: Freind
- Yiddish: פֿרײַנד (fraynd)

References

Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition
Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014