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NODE / 1323attestedDutch

vriend

TRANSLITERATION vriendPRONUNCIATION /vrint/

friend, companion, intimate, supporter, ally, relation, lover, or familiar form of address

DATE
New Dutch and current Dutch
SENSE
companion relative lover supporter modern dutch
FAMILY
Indo-European / Germanic
CANONICAL KEY
node:23:vriend:attested:sense:companion-relative-lover-supporter-modern-dutch

ANW classifies the current masculine de-noun; WikiWoordenboek supplies the one-syllable /vrint/ pronunciation. WNT documents historical senses beyond the modern core. The community pronunciation record is not used as ancestry evidence.

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Middle Dutch · Middle Dutch, recorded from the early thirteenth century · friend relative lover ally middle dutch

vrient

friend, ally, relation, lover, confidant, partisan, or form of address

SOUND
Middle Dutch vrient and its reduced variants continue into modern vriend. The current spelling retains ie while standard pronunciation is one syllable /vrint/; WNT discusses vrind as reduction and vriend as potentially etymologizing spelling.
MEANING
The ordinary friend sense continues while historical relation, lover, ally, patron, mediator, and supporter uses remain separately documented.
CHRONOLOGY
Middle Dutch into New Dutch and the current standard.
SCHOLAR
EWN editors · WNT editors · MNW editors
CONFIDENCE
established — The dictionaries directly publish the Middle-to-modern continuation and variants. The exact social diffusion of each spelling is not collapsed into one event.
Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands — vriendsupportsEWN main entry and subentries: vrient, vrind, vrunt to vriend

Publishes the Dutch form continuum.

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Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal — VRIEND IsupportsHeadword forms and historical sense groups

Supplies variants and historical semantic range.

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WikiWoordenboek — vriend pronunciation and syllabificationcontextUitspraak: IPA /vrint/, one syllable

Documents current standard pronunciation only.

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