different between fri vs friday

Bislama

Etymology

From English free.

Adjective

fri

1. free; independent

Breton

Etymology

Cognate with Cornish frig (“nostril”); perhaps related to Proto-Celtic *srogn? (compare Welsh ffroen (“nostril”), Old Irish srón (“nose”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fri?/

Noun

fri m (plural frioù)

1. (anatomy) nose

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fri?/, [f?i??]
• (Hardsysselsk) IPA^(key): [f?it??]
• Rhymes: -i
• Rhymes: -i?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German vr?en (“to marry”), from Old Saxon friohon.

Verb

fri (imperative fri, present frier or frir, past friede, past participle friet)

1. to propose (to ask for one's hand in marriage)

Derived terms

• frier (“suitor”)
• frieri (“proposal”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Low German vr?.

Adjective

fri (neuter frit, plural and definite singular attributive frie, comparative friere, superlative (predicative) friest, superlative (attributive) frieste)

1. free
2. vacant, unoccupied
3. available

Derived terms

• ufri (“constrained, inhibited, not free”)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Middle Low German vr?en (“to free”), from the adjective vri (“free”).

Verb

fri (imperative fri, present frier or frir, past friede, past participle friet)

1. to free (to make free)

References

• “fri” in Den Danske Ordbog

Irish

Preposition

fri (plus dative, triggers h-prothesis)

1. Obsolete form of fré.

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fri, from Proto-Celtic *writ- (compare Welsh wrth, prefix gwrth-), from the zero grade of Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn”) (compare Latin versus (“against”)).

Preposition

fri (takes accusative)

1. towards, to
   • c. 1000, The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig, section 1, published in Irische Teste, vol. 1 (1880), edited by Ernst Windisch:

Inflection

• Third-person plural accusative: friu

Descendants

• Irish: fré
• Manx: rish
• Scottish Gaelic: ri

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German vr?. Cognates include Danish fri, Swedish fri, German frei, Dutch vrei, English free, and Gothic ???????????????????? (freis)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?i?/

Adjective

fri (neuter singular fritt, definite singular and plural frie, comparative friere, indefinite superlative friest, definite superlative frieste)

1. free, not imprisoned or enslaved

2. free, not blocked

3. free, no payment necessary

Derived terms

References

• “fri” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fri?/

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German vr?. Akin to English free.

Adjective

fri (neuter singular fritt, definite singular and plural frie, comparative friare, indefinite superlative friast, definite superlative friaste)

1. free, not imprisoned or enslaved

2. free, not blocked

3. free, no payment necessary

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German vrien and Old Norse frjá (“to love”).

Alternative forms

• fria, frie

Verb

fri (present tense frir, past tense fridde, past participle fridd/fritt, passive infinitive friast, present participle friande, imperative fri)

1. to propose (marriage)

Derived terms

• friar
• frieri
• frieri

Etymology 3

From Old Norse fría, from fri (Etymology 1).

Alternative forms

• fria, frie

Verb

fri (present tense frir, past tense fridde, past participle fridd/fritt, passive infinitive friast, present participle friande, imperative fri)

1. to free

References

Anagrams

• fir

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fr?.

Adjective

fr?

1. free, unbound

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: vri
  • Dutch: vrij

Further reading

• “fr?”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fr?

Adjective

fri

1. free

Descendants

• Saterland Frisian: fräi
• West Frisian: frij

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fr?.

Adjective

fr?

1. free

Descendants

• Middle High German: vr?
  • German: frei
  • Luxembourgish: fräi
  • Vilamovian: fr?j
  • Yiddish: ?????? (fray)

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *writ- (compare Welsh wrth, prefix gwrth-), from the zero grade of Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn”) (compare Latin versus (“against”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?r?i/

Preposition

fri (takes accusative)

1. towards, to
2. against
3. with
4. (governing a verbal noun) about to

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fri.

Inflection

Forms combined with the definite article:

• frisin, frissin (m sg or f sg accusative)
• frisa, frisss (n sg accusative)
• frisna (pl accusative)

Forms combined with the relative particle:

• frisa, frissa

Forms combined with a possessive determiner:

• frim (first-person singular)
• frit (second-person singular)
• fria (third-person singular/plural)

Descendants

• Middle Irish: fri
  • Irish: fré
  • Manx: rish
  • Scottish Gaelic: ri

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “fri”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, ?ISBN, §§ 433, 839, pages 272–73, 514–15

Old Saxon

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *fr?.

Adjective

fr? (comparative fr?oro, superlative fr?ost)

1. free

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: vri, vrîg
  • Low German: fri, free, frigg
  • ? Danish: fri
  • ? Estonian: prii
  • ? Faroese: fríur
  • ? Latvian: br?vs
  • ? Livonian: br?
  • ? Norwegian: fri
  • ? Swedish: fri

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *frij?.

Noun

fr? f

1. woman

References

• Joseph Wright, An Old English Grammar (Oxford 1908)

Scots

Etymology

From Old English fram

Preposition

fri

1. (South Scots) from

See also

• frae
• thrae
• thri

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German vri, from Old Saxon fr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fri?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Adjective

fri

1. free, unconstrained
2. free, not imprisoned, released

3. free, without obligations

4. free of charge, gratis

Declension

Derived terms

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vri?/

Noun

fri

1. Soft mutation of bri.

Mutation