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Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *frost, from Proto-Germanic *frustaz. Cognate with Old High German frost, Old Norse frost. The surviving attestations show metathesis of r, but the descendants derive from a form without it.

More Old English words

• forspennend
• forspiercan
• forspillan
• forsprecan
• forstandan
• forstelan
• forstig
• forstoppian

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