fress
English
verb
Definitions
- (obsolete) to eat without restraint; eat heartily
Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish פֿרעסן borrowed from German fressen (devour, eat, gobble up, gobble, guzzle) derived from Middle High German vrezzen derived from Old High German frezzan (devour, eat up) derived from Proto-Germanic *fraetaną (eat up, consume, devour) affix from English eat.
Origin
English
eat
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- eat English
- eatability English
- eatable English
- eatage English
- eatathon English
- eater English
- eatery English
- eatest English
- eateth English
- eatworthy English
- miseat English
- ort English
- outeat English
- overeat English
- sleep-eat English
- sleepeat English
- undereat English
- uneat English
- Fresser German
- Fressfeind German
- Lochfraßkorrosion German
- fressen German
- zerfressen German
- *h₁ed- Proto-Indo-European
- *fra- Proto-Germanic
- *fraetaną Proto-Germanic
- etan Old English
- fretan Old English
- freten 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
- 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- פֿרעסן Yiddish
- פֿרעסער Yiddish
- *fretan Old Dutch
- vrāsen Middle Low German
- fretan Old Saxon