frījaz
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prī- — To love. Contracted from *priə (becoming *priy before vowels). Derivatives include filibuster, friend, and Friday. 1. Suffixed form *priy o . a. free, from Old English frēo … Universalium
free — [OE] The prehistoric ancestor of free was a term of affection uniting the members of a family in a common bond, and implicitly excluding their servants or slaves – those who were not ‘free’. It comes ultimately from Indo European *prijos, whose… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
Friday — [OE] Friday was named for Frigg, in Scandinavian mythology the wife of Odin and goddess of married love and of the hearth (Frigg, or in Old English Frīg, is thought to have come from prehistoric Germanic *frijaz ‘noble’, source of English free).… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
friend — [OE] Etymologically, friend means ‘loving’. It and its Germanic relatives (German freund, Dutch vriend, Swedish frände, etc) go back to the present participle of the prehistoric Germanic verb *frijōjan ‘love’ (historically, the German present… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
Frigg — O.E., but only in compounds such as frigedæg Friday, Frigeæfen (what we would call Thursday evening ). In Germanic religion, wife of Odin, goddess of heaven and married love. The English word is from Old Norse, a noun use of the fem. adjective… … Etymology dictionary
free — {{11}}free (adj.) O.E. freo free, exempt from, not in bondage, also noble; joyful, from P.Gmc. *frijaz (Cf. O.Fris. fri, O.S., O.H.G. vri, Ger. frei, Du. vrij, Goth. freis free ), from PIE *prijos dear, beloved, from root *pri … Etymology dictionary
frīja- Ⅱ — *frīja , *frījaz germ., Adjektiv: nhd. lieb, frei, eigen; ne. dear (Adjektiv), free (Adjektiv); Rekontruktionsbasis: got., an., ae., afries., mnl., mnd., ahd.; … Germanisches Wörterbuch
free — [OE] The prehistoric ancestor of free was a term of affection uniting the members of a family in a common bond, and implicitly excluding their servants or slaves – those who were not ‘free’. It comes ultimately from Indo European *prijos, whose… … Word origins
Friday — [OE] Friday was named for Frigg, in Scandinavian mythology the wife of Odin and goddess of married love and of the hearth (Frigg, or in Old English Frīg, is thought to have come from prehistoric Germanic *frijaz ‘noble’, source of English free).… … Word origins
friend — [OE] Etymologically, friend means ‘loving’. It and its Germanic relatives (German freund, Dutch vriend, Swedish frände, etc) go back to the present participle of the prehistoric Germanic verb *frijōjan ‘love’ (historically, the German present… … Word origins
