vriunt

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German friunt, from Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz, from *frijōną, from Proto-Indo-European *priHós, from *preyH- + *-ós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈvryːnt/, /ˈfryːnt/

Noun

vriunt m (feminine vriundinne)

1. friend

Declension

Declension of vriunt (masculine, class 1 strong)

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	dër	vriunt	die	vriunde
genitive	eines	dës	vriundes	dër	vriunde
dative	eime	dëm	vriunde	dën	vriunden
accusative	einen	dën	vriunt	die	vriunde

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Fründ
• Bavarian: Freind
• Cimbrian: vròint, bròint (Mezzaselva)
• Central Franconian: Frönd, Frend, Frind (Moselle Franconian), Frönk (Ripuarian, now chiefly western dialects), Fründ (Kölsch)
  • Hunsrik: Freind
  • Luxembourgish: Frënd
• German: Freund
• Vilamovian: frajnd
• Volhynian German: Freind
• Yiddish: פֿרײַנד (fraynd)

Further reading

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “vriunt”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel