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free

/fˈɹi/FREE
/fˈɹi/FREE

Meaningfree, noble

Common meaning: at liberty

Other meanings: costing nothing

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√PRI‘love’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 217, p. 737 · scan
  2. Old EnglishfreosourceB&T
  3. Middle Englishfresource
  4. Englishfree‘at liberty’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Old English freo ‘free, noble’.

Roots

  • freo Old English “free, noble”

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