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historical dictionarymnw-vrient

Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek — VRIENT I

AUTHOR / EDITOR
Eelco Verwijs · Jacob Verdam · Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal
YEAR
1929
PUBLISHER
Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal
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SOURCE TYPE
historical dictionary
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vriend and vijand are loving-one and hating-one mirror fossils—not cognates.

EWN, WNT, and MNW independently analyze vriend as an old present participle of the Germanic verb to love. EWN explicitly compares the formation of vijand, whose reviewed ancestry follows a different hate verb. Modern /vrint/ also makes visible how far living pronunciation can move from historical spelling. The real truth is a shared grammatical blueprint with distinct roots, not a manufactured story of one word dividing into friend and enemy.

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*prī- → *frī- → *frijōnd- → friunt → vrient → vriend

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EDGE 1276supportsprobable

*frijōnd- → *frī-

Proto-Germanic → Proto-Germanic · participial derivation

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The agent noun is built with Germanic present-participial nd-morphology on the *frī- or earlier *frij- base. OED traces the later *iu diphthong to contraction with the suffixal vowel.
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A productive loving or favorably disposed participant becomes a lexical noun for friend or relation. The derivation does not make every later friend literally a person performing a continuous act of loving.
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Oxford English Dictionary editors · Bosworth · Toller · American Heritage Dictionary editors
Opening etymology: participle of Germanic vriën, Gothic frijōn

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EDGE 1286supportsestablished

vrient → friunt

Middle Dutch → Old Dutch · historical continuation

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.
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Headword VRIENT I and variant inventory

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EDGE 1287supportsprobable

friunt → *frijōnd-

Old Dutch → Proto-Germanic · inheritance

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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.
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EWN editors · WNT editors · MNW editors
Opening etymology: participle of Germanic vriën

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vriendSOURCE-REPORTED

vrient

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