friessen
Luxemburgeois
/fʀie̯sen/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to eat
- (transitive) to eat, to gorge, to stuff
Etymology
Inherited from Old High German frezzan (devour, eat up) inherited from Proto-Germanic *fraetaną (eat up, consume, devour).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*fraetaną
Gloss
eat up, consume, devour
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- forfret English
- fret English
- fretboard English
- fretful English
- fretless English
- fretman English
- fretsaw English
- fretsome English
- fretter English
- frettest English
- fretteth English
- fretty English
- fretwork English
- overfret English
- refret English
- unfret English
- Fresser German
- Fressfeind German
- Lochfraßkorrosion German
- fressen German
- zerfressen German
- aanvreten Dutch, Flemish
- communistenvreter Dutch, Flemish
- eten Dutch, Flemish
- kettervreter Dutch, Flemish
- opvreten Dutch, Flemish
- overvreten Dutch, Flemish
- socialistenvreter Dutch, Flemish
- vreetmolen Dutch, Flemish
- vreten Dutch, Flemish
- *h₁ed- Proto-Indo-European
- *fra- Proto-Germanic
- *fraetaną Proto-Germanic
- fretan Old English
- frēten Middle English
- vrēten Middle Dutch
- frezzan Old High German
- frāz Old High German
- vreet Afrikaans
- frezzen Middle High German
- vrezzen Middle High German
- 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- פֿרעסן Yiddish
- *fretan Old Dutch
- vrāsen Middle Low German
- fretan Old Saxon