Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To cover (someone or something) with small marks or spots; to dapple, to freckle, to speckle. · To scatter objects over (something).
Synonym of freckle (“a small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin; any small spot which has a different colour from its background”).
The noun is a clipping of freckle (noun). Freckle is derived from frecken (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) freckle”)), from Late Middle English fracle, frekel, frekle (“freckle; pimple; fleck of colour in a stone”), a variant of frakne, freken (“freckle; other skin blemish”) from Old Norse freknur pl, an s-less variant of Proto-Germanic *sprekalą (“freckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g-, *(s)pregʰ- (“to sprinkle, strew”). The verb is a clipping of freckle (noun) or freckle (verb).
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- Root classification mention*(s)pregʰ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionfracleenm
- Derivation mentionfreknurnon
- Derivation mention*sprekalągem-pro · freckle
- Derivation mention*(s)pregʰ-ine-pro
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