frorn
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But consyderyng we be so surely ascertayned of the lacke therof, and that our bloud is there frorne with the cold ayre of Scotlande, there was neuer prynce more vyolently compelled to warre then we be, […]"
- "My heart-blood is nigh well frorn I feel."
- "The lake..was soon ‘frorn’, as they say in Suffolk."
- "On the frorn coast of Inishfree, And Lal's first bed the plunging sea."
- "[…] in drifts, the frorn forest aches heaves grieves and uplifts its arms with cruel icicles weighted to the hated demons for ruth; […]"
- "Out of the frorn and falling sleep That such as we so long must keep, […]"
Etymology
From Middle English froren, from Old English froren, ġefroren (“frozen”), from Proto-West Germanic *froʀan, from Proto-Germanic *fruzanaz (“frozen”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to freeze”). Doublet of frore and frozen. Cognate with Dutch gevroren (“frozen”), German Low German froren (“frozen”), German gefroren (“frozen”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: froren, *froʀan, *fruzanaz, *freusaną
Usage
Inflected Forms
frorne (alternative, obsolete)