Etymograph

English

friseur

Friseur comes from French friseur ‘hairdresser’, from friser ‘to curl, frizz’, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *frisaz.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*frisaz‘curly, frizzy’reconstructed
  2. Old Frisianc. 1200–1550frisle‘curly hair’
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentfriser‘to curl, frizz’
  4. French, derivedc. 1600–presentfriseur‘hairdresser’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1817same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*frisaz‘curly, frizzy’reconstructed
  2. Old Frisianc. 1200–1550frisle‘curly hair’
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentfriser‘to curl, frizz’
  4. French, derivedc. 1600–presentfriseur‘hairdresser’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1817same form

Earliest quotation: 1817, Hurst: “As for poor Owen, could the bob-wig which he…”

Linked words

through Proto-Germanic *frisaz ‘curly, frizzy’

frieze, frizz, 1 more

Today it means

noun A hairdresser.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *frisaz / friseur

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