fruiten

From fruit +‎ -en.

fruiten (third-person singular simple present fruitens, present participle fruitening, simple past and past participle fruitened)

1. (transitive) To make fruitful.
2. (intransitive) To become full of fruit.

• fruitening

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrœy̯.tə(n)/
• Hyphenation: frui‧ten
• Rhymes: -œy̯tən

From Middle Dutch fruten, older friten (“to fry”), from Old French frit, past participle of frire (“to fry”). Folk-etymologically influenced by fruit.

fruiten

1. (ergative) to fry in boiling fat (now chiefly of culinary vegetables in small volumes of fat)

   Synonym: (dated) fruiteren

• Petjo: fruitjes

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fruiten

1. plural of fruit