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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)

  1. (obsolete) Marked.
    pock-fretten (marked with the smallpox)

Verb

fretten

  1. 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

  1. (transitive, informal) to eat
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • opfretten

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

fretten

  1. plural of fret
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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)

  1. (Austria, Southern Germany, reflexive) to struggle with a very tedious task
  2. (obsolete) to chafe, make sore

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • fretten” in Duden online
  • fretten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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Middle English

Verb

fretten

  1. alternative form of freten (to bind)

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