Etymograph

English

frisure

Frisure comes from French frisure ‘curl (of hair)’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *frisaz ‘curly, frizzy’.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*frisaz‘curly, frizzy’reconstructed
  2. Old Frisianc. 1200–1550frisle‘curly hair’
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentfriser‘to curl’
  4. French, derivedc. 1600–presentfrisure‘curl (of hair)’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1769same 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’
  4. French, derivedc. 1600–presentfrisure‘curl (of hair)’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1769same form

Earliest quotation: 1769, Tobias Smollett, The History and Adventures of an Atom: “A box on the ear destroys the whole oeconomy…”

Linked words

through Proto-Germanic *frisaz ‘curly, frizzy’

frieze, frizz, 1 more

Today it means

noun The dressing of the hair by curling.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *frisaz / frisure

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