# fri
## Bislama
### Etymology

From English free.

### Adjective

fri
* free; independent

## Breton
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfriː/

### Noun

fri m (plural frioù)
* (anatomy) nose

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /friː/, [fʁiːˀ]
* (Hardsysselsk) IPA: [fʁitʃː]
* Rhymes: -i
* Rhymes: -iː

### Etymology 1

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

#### Verb

fri (imperative fri, present frier or frir, past friede, past participle friet)
* to propose (to ask for one's hand in marriage)

##### Derived terms

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

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Low German vrī.

#### Adjective

fri (neuter frit, plural and definite singular attributive frie, comparative friere, superlative (predicative) friest, superlative (attributive) frieste)
* free
* vacant, unoccupied
* available

##### Derived terms

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

### Etymology 3

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

#### Verb

fri (imperative fri, present frier or frir, past friede, past participle friet)
* to free (to make free)

### References

* “fri” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [fri]
* Hyphenation: fri

### Preposition

fri
* (neologism) including the cost of
    mil eŭroj fri haveno
       a thousand euros including shipping costs
    cent dolaroj fri dogano
       one hundred dollars including customs duty

#### Usage notes

Unofficial and technical. In everyday language, this would be expressed with a more wordy phrase.

### References

* ↑ Wennergren, Bertilo (0202 November 14) “Neoficialaj rolvortetoj”, in Plena Manlibro de Esperanta Gramatiko‎ (in Esperanto), retrieved 2010-10-08

## Irish
### Preposition

fri (plus dative, triggers h-prothesis)
* Obsolete form of fré.

## Kashubian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German frei.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfri/
* Rhymes: -i
* Syllabification: fri

### Adjective

fri (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)
* (obsolete) free

### Further reading

* Stefan Ramułt (1893) “fri”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 38

## 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)
* towards, to
** c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Texte, volume 1, published 1800, section 1:Ro·ferad failte friu uile, ocus ructha chuci-sium isin mbruidin.They were all made welcome and brought to him in the hall.(literally, “A welcome was provided to them all…”)

#### Inflection

* Third-person plural accusative: friu

#### Descendants

* Classical Gaelic: re
* Irish: re (“to, towards, against”)
    ⇒ Irish: le (conflated with la)
    ⇒ Irish: fa ré, fara, frae (“along with, beside”)
* Manx: rish
* Scottish Gaelic: ri

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German vrī. Cognates include Danish fri, Swedish fri, German frei, Dutch vrij, English free, and Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 (freis).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɾiː/

### Adjective

fri (neuter singular fritt, definite singular and plural frie, comparative friere, indefinite superlative friest, definite superlative frieste)
* free, not imprisoned or enslaved
    en fri mann ― a free man
* free, not blocked
    fri ferdsel ― free traffic
* free, no payment necessary
    fri inngang ― free admission

#### Derived terms

* alkoholfri
* bilfri
* blyfri
* daddelfri
* fribord
* fridag
* frifinne
* frigi
* frigjøre
* frihavn
* friidrett
* frikjenne
* frikoble
* friluft
* frimerke
* friminutt
* frispark
* frita
* fritenker
* fritid
* frittgående
* frittstående
* gjestfri
* glutenfri
* isfri
* luktfri
* på frifot
* rentefri
* risikofri
* skyfri
* smertefri
* snøfri
* sukkerfri
* tollfri
* valgfri
* vannfri
* vedlikeholdsfri

### References

* “fri” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /friː/

### Etymology 1

From Middle Low German vrī. Akin to English free.

#### Adjective

fri (neuter singular fritt, definite singular and plural frie, comparative friare, indefinite superlative friast, definite superlative friaste)
* free, not imprisoned or enslaved
    ein fri mann ― a free man
* free, not blocked
    fri ferdsel ― free traffic
* free, no payment necessary
    fri inngang ― free admission

##### Derived terms

* alkoholfri
* bilfri
* fribord
* fridag
* frifinne
* friidrett
* friluft
* frimerke
* friminutt
* frispark
* frita
* fritid
* gjestfri
* glutenfri
* isfri
* luktfri
* på frifot
* rentefri
* risikofri
* skyfri
* smertefri
* snøfri
* sukkerfri
* tollfri

### 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 fritt/fridd, passive infinitive friast, present participle friande, imperative fri)
* 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 fritt/fridd, passive infinitive friast, present participle friande, imperative fri)
* to free

### References

* 1 2 3 “fri” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* fir

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *frī.

### Adjective

frī
* free, unbound

#### Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: vri
** Dutch: vrij
*** Afrikaans: vry
*** Negerhollands: vri, vrie, fri
*** → Aukan: felei
*** → Caribbean Javanese: frèi, prèi, pré
*** → Indonesian: prei (“holiday, free, doing nothing”)
*** → Javanese: ꦥꦿꦺꦲꦶ (prèi)
*** → Peranakan Indonesian: vry
*** → Sundanese: peré

#### Further reading

* “frī”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old English
### Adjective

frī
* Alternative form of frēo

## Old Frisian
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *frī.

### Adjective

fri
* free

#### Descendants

* Saterland Frisian: fräi
* West Frisian: frij

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *frī.

### Adjective

frī
* free

#### Derived terms

* frīginōz

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: vrī
** German: frei
** Luxembourgish: fräi
** Vilamovian: frȧj
** Yiddish: פֿרײַ (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: [ɸʲrʲi]

### Preposition

fri (takes accusative)
* towards, to
* against
* with
* (governing a verbal noun) about to
* from (with scaraid (“to separate”) and its compounds and synonyms)
* with respect to, with regard to, in regard to
For quotations using this term, see Citations:fri.

#### Inflection

Forms combined with the definite article:
* fris(s)in (m sg or f sg accusative)
* fris(s)a (n sg accusative)
* frisna (pl accusative)
Forms combined with the relative particle:
* fris(s)a
Forms combined with a possessive determiner:
* frim (first-person singular)
* frit (second-person singular)
* fria (third-person singular/plural)

#### Descendants

* Middle Irish: fri
** Classical Gaelic: re
** Irish: re (“to, towards, against”)
    ⇒ Irish: le (conflated with la)
    ⇒ Irish: fa ré, fara, frae (“along with, beside”)
** Manx: rish
** Scottish Gaelic: ri

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fri”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) 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; reprinted 2017

## Old Saxon
### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *frī.

#### Adjective

frī (comparative frīoro, superlative frīost)
* free

##### Descendants

* Middle Low German: vri, vrîg
** Low German: fri, free, frigg
** → Danish: fri
** → Estonian: prii
** → Faroese: fríur
** → Latvian: brīvs
** → Livonian: brī
** → Norwegian: fri
** → Swedish: fri

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *frijō.

#### Noun

frī f
* woman

#### References

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

## Scots
### Etymology

From Old English fram.

### Preposition

fri
* (Southern Scots) from

### See also

* frae
* thrae
* thri

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From English free.

### Adjective

fri
* free

### Verb

fri
* to set free

### Noun

fri
* freedom
** 1961, Michaël Slory, ““Sarka – Gi Yomo Kenyata (Kenya)” [Bitter struggle – For Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya)]”, in Sarka / Bittere strijd‎, Amsterdam: Pegasus:Fri yu no kan skrifi na / ini den nangra fu den opete.Freedom cannot be written / in the clutches of vultures.

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Middle Low German vri, from Old Saxon frī.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /friː/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iː

### Adjective

fri
* free, unconstrained
* free, not imprisoned, released
    fri mot borgen ― released on bail
* free, without obligations
    Du är fri att göra som du vill.You are free to do as you please.
* free of charge, gratis

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

#### Derived terms

* alkolholfri
* alliansfri
* avgiftsfri
* bombfri
* felfri
* fria
* frige
* frigöra
* frihamn
* frihandel
* friherre
* friherrinna
* frihet
* friidrott
* frikostig
* frikyrka
* frikår
* frikänna
* friland
* frilans
* friliggande
* frilufts-
* frilägga
* frimurare
* frimärke
* fripassagerare
* frisim
* frisinnad
* frisinne
* friskola
* frisläppa
* frispark
* fristad
* fristat
* fristil
* fristående
* frita
* fritid
* fritt
* frivillig
* frostfri
* isfri
* kostnadsfri
* momsfri
* mötesfri
* ofri
* problemfri
* receptfri
* reklamfri
* rostfri
* skattefri
* valfri

## Tarifit
### Etymology

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### Pronunciation

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### Verb

fri (Tifinagh spelling ⴼⵔⵉ)
* (transitive) to tear, to rip

#### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Derived terms

* Verbal noun: afray

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vriː/

### Noun

fri
* Soft mutation of bri.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.