frisque

Middle French

Alternative forms

fricque, frique, friche

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch frisc, frisch, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *frisk. Doublet of frais.

Adjective

frisque m or f (plural frisques)

Descendants

French: frisque
→ Middle English: frisk
- English: frisk

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (frische)
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “frĭsk”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 15/2: Germanismes: Bu–F, page 179

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