fretan
Old English
verb
Definitions
- to devour
- to break, burst
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *fraetaną (eat up, consume, devour) prefix from Old English etan (eat).
Origin
Old English
etan
Gloss
eat
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- eat English
- fress English
- fret English
- fretten English
- Fresser German
- Fressfeind German
- Lochfraßkorrosion German
- fressen German
- zerfressen German
- *h₁ed- Proto-Indo-European
- *etaną Proto-Germanic
- *fra- Proto-Germanic
- *fraetaną Proto-Germanic
- fräta Swedish
- etan Old English
- freten Old English
- geetan Old English
- moþfreten Old English
- þurhetan Old English
- eten Middle English
- freten Middle English
- frēten Middle English
- frezzan Old High German
- frāz Old High German
- frezzen Middle High German
- vrezzen Middle High German
- friessen Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- 𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- פֿרעסן Yiddish
- *etan gmw-pro
- *fretan Old Dutch
- vreten Middle Low German
- vrāsen Middle Low German
- fretan Old Saxon