English
friendsome
Friendsome comes from Middle English frendsome.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500frendsome
- Englishearliest quotation 1901friendsome
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500frendsome
- Englishearliest quotation 1901friendsome
Earliest quotation: 1901, Gwendoline Keats: “Everyone outside my mother called father Eben. Father looked…”
Formed from friend + -some
Proto-Indo-European *preyH- ‘to please’
Proto-Germanic *frijōndz ‘friend’
Proto-West Germanic *friund
Old English frēond
Middle English freend
English friend
Every English word from Middle English frendsome
Today it means
adj Indicating or characterised by friendship; in manner, like or befitting a friend; friendlike; friendly.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English frendsome / friendsome