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fretten
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English
Etymology
From Middle English freten, from Old English freten, ġefreten (“eaten”), past participle of Old English fretan (“to devour, eat up, consume, break, eat into”). More at fret.
Adjective
fretten (comparative more fretten, superlative most fretten)
- (obsolete) Marked.
- pock-fretten (“marked with the smallpox”)
Verb
fretten
- alternative past participle of fret
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Variant of vreten (“to eat”), possibly from cognate West Frisian frette or influenced by other cognate forms (compare German fressen, Westphalian Low German friätten, northern Low German frett, third-person singular of freten).
Verb
fretten
- (transitive, informal) to eat
Conjugation
Derived terms
- opfretten
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
fretten
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German
Etymology
From Middle High German vret(t)en, vraten, from Old High German *fretten, fratōn (“to chafe, rub”), derived from frat (“sore”). Cognate with Luxembourgish frieden (“to touch”). Further origin unknown. The word cannot be immediately cognate with English fret, which instead corresponds to German fressen. Origin from a derivative of Latin fricāre (cf. Italian frettare) is also unlikely because of the underlying a-vocalism.
Pronunciation
Verb
fretten (weak, third-person singular present frettet, past tense frettete, past participle gefrettet, auxiliary haben)
- (Austria, Southern Germany, reflexive) to struggle with a very tedious task
- (obsolete) to chafe, make sore
Conjugation
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
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Middle English
Verb
fretten
- alternative form of freten (“to bind”)
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