Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap. · To search (someone) by feeling their body and clothing. · To search (a place).
Lively; brisk.
A little playful skip or leap; a brisk and lively movement. · The act of frisking, of searching for something by feeling someone's body.
From Middle English frisk (“lively, frisky”), from Middle French frisque (“lively, jolly, blithe, fine, spruce, gay”), of Germanic origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch frisc (“fresh”) or Old High German frisc (“fresh”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”). Cognate with Icelandic frískur (“frisky, fresh”). Doublet of fresco and fresh. More at fresh. Alternative etymology derives frisk from an alteration (due to Old French fresche (“fresh”)) of Old French fricque, frique (“smart, strong, playful, bright”), from Gothic *𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍃 (*friks, “greedy, hungry”), from Proto-Germanic *frekaz, *frakaz (“greedy, active”), from Proto-Indo-European *preg- (“greedy, fierce”). Cognate with Middle Dutch vrec (“greedy, avaricious”), German frech (“insolent”), Old English frec (“greedy, eager, bold, daring, dangerous”). More at freak.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionfriskenm · lively, frisky
- Derivation mentionfrisquefrm · lively, jolly, blithe, fine, spruce, gay
- Derivation mentionfriscdum · fresh
- Derivation mentionfriscgoh · fresh
- Derivation mention*friskazgem-pro · fresh
- Cognate mentionfrískuris · frisky, fresh
- Doublet mentionfrescoen
- Doublet mentionfreshen
- Cognate mentionfreschefro · fresh
- Derivation mentionfricquefro
- Derivation mention*𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍃got · greedy, hungry
- Derivation mention*frekazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*preg-ine-pro · greedy, fierce
- Cognate mentionvrecdum · greedy, avaricious
- Cognate mentionfrechde · insolent
- Cognate mentionfrecang · greedy, eager, bold, daring, dangerous
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