English
free-hanging
From free + hanging.
Proto-Indo-European *preyH- ‘to please; to love’
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Proto-Germanic *frijaz ‘free’
Proto-West Germanic *frī ‘free’
Old English frēo ‘free, at liberty’
Middle English fre ‘having the status of a freeman’
English free
Today it means
adj Hanging clear of other objects and without support from other objects.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / free-hanging