Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryto eat without restraint; eat heartily
From German fressen (“to eat, devour, gobble”) and/or Yiddish פֿרעסן (fresn), both from Middle High German vrëȥȥen, from Old High German frëȥȥan (“to eat up”), from Proto-West Germanic *fraetan, from Proto-Germanic *fraetaną (“to eat up”), from *fra- (intensive and perfective prefix) + *etaną (“to eat”), equivalent to for- + eat. Cognate with Old English fretan (“to devour”). Doublet of fret.
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- Borrowed-form mentionfressende · to eat, devour, gobble
- Borrowed-form mentionפֿרעסןyi
- Derivation mentionvrëȥȥengmh
- Derivation mentionfrëȥȥangoh · to eat up
- Derivation mention*fraetangmw-pro
- Derivation mention*fraetanągem-pro · to eat up
- Word-formation componentfor-en
- Word-formation componenteaten
- Cognate mentionfretanang · to devour
- Doublet mentionfreten
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