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Who invented the word friends?

Updated: 10/24/2022
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11y ago

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The etymology of the word friend originates from before 900 AD is as follows:

From Middle English frende, frend, freond, from Old English frēond(“friend, relative, lover”, literally “loving-[one]”), from Proto-Germanic frijōndz(“lover, friend”), from Proto-Indo-European prēy-, prāy-(“to like, love”). Cognate with West Frisian freon, froen, freondinne(“friend”), Dutch vriend(“friend”), Low German frund, fründ(“friend, relative”), German Freund(“friend”), Danish frænde(“kinsman”), Swedish frände(“kinsman, relative”), Icelandic frændi(“kinsman”).

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