Word Origin Summary

*friþu is attested in Old Frankish. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• effrayer

  French · derived from

• ffrae

  Welsh · borrowed from

• fray

  English · derived from

• frede

  Sranan Tongo · derived from

• esfreer

  French · derived from

• effreer

  Middle French · inherited from

• afraid

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root