Where does “frez” come from?
frez (Mauritian Creole) comes from French fraise, from French fraige, from Latin fragum, from Latin fragōsus, from Latin fragor, from Latin -or, from Proto-Italic -ōs, from Proto-Indo-European -ōs — Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;...
frez (Mauritian Creole): strawberry
Definitions
- strawberry
Ancestry of “frez”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | fraise | strawberry; bulwark, palisade; nipple |
| 2 | French | fraige | — |
| 3 | Latin | fragum | strawberry |
| 4 | Latin | fragōsus | fragile, brittle |
| 5 | Latin | fragor | a breaking, shattering; a crash; an uproar, din |
| 6 | Latin | -or | used to form a third-declension masculine... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -ōs | Creates masculine action nouns or result nouns... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -ōs | Creates masculine and feminine action nouns or... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -oss | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -os | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;... |