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NODE / 1325attestedOld Dutch

friunt

TRANSLITERATION friunt

friend, beloved companion, or favored person; inherited loving-agent noun

DATE
Old Dutch, recorded around 1100
SENSE
loving one friend old dutch
FAMILY
Indo-European / West Germanic
CANONICAL KEY
node:85:friunt:attested:sense:loving-one-friend-old-dutch

EWN reports friunt and inflected friunde in the Old Dutch Willeram around 1100. These are source-reported edited quotations, not directly inspected manuscript objects.

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ANCESTRAL EDGES

ROOT OF THIS ROOT

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GO DEEPERinheritanceprobable
Proto-Germanic · normalized Proto-Germanic participial formation · loving one proto germanic present participle

*frijōnd-

a reconstructed present-participial formation, the loving or favorably disposed one

SOUND
Old Dutch friunt reflects reconstructed *frijōnd-, with daughter-language vowel and participial-stem evidence supporting the comparison rather than one preserved proto-spelling.
MEANING
An inherited loving or favorably disposed participant is lexicalized as the noun friend before the surviving Old Dutch record.
CHRONOLOGY
Proto-Germanic reconstruction into the Old Dutch record around 1100.
SCHOLAR
EWN editors · WNT editors · MNW editors
CONFIDENCE
probable — EWN explicitly prints the reconstruction and all three dictionaries identify the participial origin; the parent form itself is unattested.
Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands — vriendsupportsEWN etymology: < Proto-Germanic *frijōnd-

Explicitly publishes the reconstructed parent.

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Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal — VRIEND IsupportsOpening etymology and Germanic cognate set

Independently identifies the participial comparison.

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Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek — VRIENT IsupportsOpening etymology: participle of Germanic vriën

Adds the Middle Dutch lexicographic analysis.

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DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

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DESCENDANThistorical continuationestablished
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
Old Dutch friunt continues into Middle Dutch vrient and variants vreent, vrint, and vrunt through West Germanic and Dutch sound and spelling development.
MEANING
The inherited friend or favored-person noun persists while recorded ally, relation, lover, and address uses diversify.
CHRONOLOGY
Old Dutch around 1100 into the early Middle Dutch record.
SCHOLAR
EWN editors · MNW editors · WNT editors
CONFIDENCE
established — EWN supplies the Old and Middle Dutch records; MNW and WNT independently inventory the later forms.
Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands — vriendsupportsEWN dated forms: Old Dutch friunt; Middle Dutch vrient

Directly links the Old and Middle Dutch records.

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Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal — VRIEND IcontextHeadword VRIEND I; Middle Dutch forms

Supplies a second historical form inventory.

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Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek — VRIENT IsupportsHeadword VRIENT I and variant inventory

Independently supplies Middle Dutch forms and meanings.

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UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
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HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01historical continuationestablished
Old Dutchfriunt→Middle Dutch · Middle Dutch, recorded from the early thirteenth centuryvrientfriend, ally, relation, lover, confidant, partisan, or form of address
SOUND
Old Dutch friunt continues into Middle Dutch vrient and variants vreent, vrint, and vrunt through West Germanic and Dutch sound and spelling development.
MEANING
The inherited friend or favored-person noun persists while recorded ally, relation, lover, and address uses diversify.
EWN editors · MNW editors · WNT editors3 CITATIONSEDGE 1286 ↗
Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands — vriend · EWN dated forms: Old Dutch friunt; Middle Dutch vrient ↗Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal — VRIEND I · Headword VRIEND I; Middle Dutch forms ↗Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek — VRIENT I · Headword VRIENT I and variant inventory ↗
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02historical continuationestablished
Middle Dutchvrient→Dutch · New Dutch and current Dutchvriendfriend, companion, intimate, supporter, ally, relation, lover, or familiar 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.
EWN editors · WNT editors · MNW editors3 CITATIONSEDGE 1285 ↗
Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands — vriend · EWN main entry and subentries: vrient, vrind, vrunt to vriend ↗Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal — VRIEND I · Headword forms and historical sense groups ↗WikiWoordenboek — vriend pronunciation and syllabification · Uitspraak: IPA /vrint/, one syllable ↗

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RECORDED EVIDENCE

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