freo

• freu

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese frẽo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin frēnum. Cognate with Portuguese freio, Spanish freno and French frein.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɾe.ʊ], [ˈfɾeʊ̯]

freo m (plural freos)

1. brake

   Synonyms: entrabe, trabán

2. bridle
   • 1455, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 316:

     Iten, que furtara a faqa a Pero Gayo da sua casa, que está á par da vila de Ribadauia, da casa que está á par da ponte, et que lla furtara con a sella e con o freo et que fora despois por ela preso ena Cruña

     Item, that he stole the mare of Pedro Gaio, from his house that is close to the town of Ribadavia, by the bridge; and that he stole her with saddle and bridle, and that later he was captured because of her in A Coruña

   Synonym: brida

3. bit of the bridle
4. strait, passage

• enfrear
• frear
• refrear

• “freo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “freo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “freo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “freo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “freo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• freob

• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /fˠɾˠoːbˠ/ (corresponding to the variant freob)

freo (emphatic freosan)

1. third-person plural of fré

• Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 1977, Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht, 2nd edition, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 306.

From Proto-West Germanic *frī.

• frīo, freoh, frioh, friġ, frī, frȳ

• IPA^(key): /fre͜oː/

frēo

1. free, at liberty; exempt
   • c. 890, Alfred the Great, Laws

     Beo he freo

     he shall be free.

2. (poetic) noble, glad
   • c. 700 Cædmon, Metrical Paraphrase

     Ða wearþ worn afeded freora bearna

     then a number of noble children were brought forth.

• The stem frēo- contracted with any endings beginning with a vowel, leaving many forms being simply frēo: King Alfred, Pastoral Care (transl. of Gregory the Great): Ac forðæm ðe hi her syngiað, & hit him no ne hreowð, hi gehrinð her sumu wracu ær ðæm ecum witum ðæt hi ne sien freo ne orsorge on ðæm anbide ðæs maran wites.—note that orsorge (orsorh) has the ending -e, as compared to frēo.

• frēolīċ
• frēolīċe

• frēond
• frēoġan
• friþ
• frīġ

• Middle English: fre, vri, vry
  • English: free
    • → Fiji Hindi: firii
  • Scots: fre

frēo m

1. a free man, man

Uncertain; possible etymologies include:

• From Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ, a feminine form of *frawjô (“lord”) (Old English frēa), from Proto-Indo-European *proHwo-, a derivation from *per- (“to go forward”). Cognate with Old Saxon frūa, Old High German frouwa (German Frau), Old Norse freyja. The Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Slavic *prāvъ (Old Church Slavonic правъ (pravŭ), Russian пра́вый (právyj, “right”)), and the first element of Latin provincia.
• From Proto-Germanic *frijō, of the same root as etymology 1 above and related to the verb that yielded Old English frēoġan (“to liberate; to love”).

frēo f (Northumbrian)

1. a woman
   • c. 700, Cædmon, Metrical Paraphrase

     oþ-ðæt he funde frēo fægroste

     until he found the fairest woman

• frēa
• frōwe