English
make-fray
From make + fray.
Proto-Germanic *makaz ‘fit, suitable, agreeable’
Proto-West Germanic *mak ‘fit, suitable’
Proto-West Germanic *makōn ‘to make suitable; to build, make’
Old English macian ‘to make, build, work’
Middle English maken
English make
Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- ‘to cut’
Old French fraier
Middle English fraien ‘to beat so as to cause bruising, to bruise’
English fray
Today it means
noun Someone who instigates quarrels.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / make-fray