freosan

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Irish

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Pronoun

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freosan

  1. third-person plural emphatic of fré

Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *freusan, from Proto-Germanic *freusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (to freeze, frost). Cognate with Old Frisian *friāsa, Old Saxon friosan, Old Dutch *friesan, Old High German friosan, Old Norse frjósa, and with Latin pruīna (hoar-frost).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfre͜oː.sɑn/, [ˈfre͜oː.zɑn]

Verb

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frēosan

  1. to freeze

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Middle English: fresen, freese, frese, freosen
    • English: freeze
    • Scots: frese