vriunt

Middle High German

Alternative forms

  • (all chiefly Central German) vrünt, vrunt, vrūnt

Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈvryːnt/, /ˈfryːnt/

    Noun

    vriunt m (feminine vriundinne)

    1. friend

    Declension

    Declension of vriunt (strong masculine without umlaut)
    singular plural
    indef. def. noun def. noun
    nominative ein dër vriunt die vriunde
    genitive eines dës vriundes dër vriunde
    dative eime dëm vriunde dën vriunden
    accusative einen dën vriunt die vriunde

    Descendants

    • Alemannic German: Fründ
    • Bavarian: Freind
    • Central Franconian: Frönd, Frönk, Vrönk, Fründ, Frind, Frend, Freind
    • German: Freund
    • Vilamovian: frajnd
    • Volhynian German: Freind
    • Yiddish: פֿרײַנד (fraynd)

    Further reading

    • Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “vriunt”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
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