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Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal — VRIEND I

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historical dictionary
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RANK 54GRADE Asupports

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

Opening etymology, form history, and senses

Independently supplies the participial analysis and historical range.

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EDGE 1276supportsprobable

*frijōnd- → *frī-

Proto-Germanic → Proto-Germanic · participial derivation

SOUND
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.
MEANING
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: present participle of Germanic *frijon

Independently supports the derivation.

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EDGE 1285supportsestablished

vriend → vrient

Dutch → Middle Dutch · historical continuation

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.
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EDGE 1286contextestablished

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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EWN editors · MNW editors · WNT editors
Headword VRIEND I; Middle Dutch forms

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EDGE 1287supportsprobable

friunt → *frijōnd-

Old Dutch → Proto-Germanic · inheritance

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.
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EWN editors · WNT editors · MNW editors
Opening etymology and Germanic cognate set

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vriend

vrind

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