Noun: freke
| Singular | freke |
| Plural | frekes; freken |
Sample Sentences
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Þen found he no frekes to fraist on his strenght. [1540, Destruction of Troy:]
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There was never a freke one foot would flee, but still in stour did stand. [1891, Henry Morley, A Bundle of Ballads:]
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þes fifti, alle ferliche freken. [1225, St. Katherine of Alexandria:]
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Go not forthe as a dombe freke. [1475, Book of Courtesy:]
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Bringing my love, for Time’s a freke of jealous strain; […] [1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:]
Nouns inflected like freke
Sacher-torte,
Wunderkammer,
blitz torte,
Klokan,
linzer torte,
capelle,
pickelhaube,
turnhalle,
druse,
freke,
torte,
schul,
shmoo,
sachertorte,
Aufgabe,
sacher torte,
auslese,
kapelle,
linzertorte,
manbote, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English freke (“a bold man, warrior, man, creature”), from Old English freca (“a bold man, warrior, hero”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *frekô (“an active or eagre man, warrior, wolf”), from *frekaz (“active, bold, desirous, greedy”), from Proto-Indo-European *preg- (“to shrug, be quick, twitch, splash, blast”). Akin with Old Norse freki (“greedy or avaricious one, a wolf”), Old High German freh (“eager”), Old English frēcne (“dangerous, daring, courageous, bold”). See: Middle English Nouns '
freke', Old English Nouns '
freca', Old Norse Nouns '
freki', Old English Nouns '
frēcne'.