fre – Scots verb conjugation

Infinitive

fre

Participles

Present	frein
Past	fret

Present

fres

Past

fret

Verbs conjugated like fre

sairch, souder, flauchter, upstraucht, yammer, bauther, backspeir, backspeer, blikken, blether, daunton, breenge, scunner, superexpend, scrieve, scowder, scooder, disable, besmarten, souther, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Etymology

1. From Middle English fre, freo, from Old English frēo (“free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frī, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz (“beloved, not in bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“dear, beloved”), from *preyH- (“to love, to please”).
2. Related to English friend. Cognate with West Frisian frij (“free”), Dutch vrij (“free”), Low German free (“free”), German frei (“free”), Friede (“peace”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian fri (“free”), Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá). See: English 'friend'.