Noun: frosh
| Singular | frosh |
| Plural | froshes; frosh |
Sample Sentences
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1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356
Nouns inflected like frosh
gallowglass,
secesh,
icefish,
ghostfish,
neon fish,
New English,
combfish,
zebrafish,
walking catfish,
rose fish,
granofels,
elephant trunkfish,
medusafish,
Mississippi catfish,
boxfish,
weeverfish,
greenfish,
stone fish,
stone-fish,
bannerfish, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English frossh, frosch, from Old English frosc, from Proto-Germanic *fruskaz (“frog”), from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (“to jump, hop”). Cognate with West Frisian froask (“frog”), Dutch vors (“frog”), German Frosch (“frog”), Norwegian frosk (“frog”), Icelandic froskur (“frog”). Doublet of frosk; more at frog. See: Middle English Nouns '
frossh', Old English Nouns '
frosc', Dutch Nouns '
vors', German Nouns '
Frosch', Icelandic Nouns '
froskur'.
Verbs referencing "frosh"
English Nouns
frog, German Nouns
Frosch.