freme

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrɛ.me/
• Rhymes: -ɛme
• Hyphenation: frè‧me

freme

1. third-person singular present indicative of fremere

• Efrem, ferme

freme

1. second-person singular present active imperative of fremō

• vreme, freame, freome

From Old English freme, fremu (“advantage, gain, benefit”).

freme (plural fremes)

1. benefit, profit, advantage

   Ðe man..erneð after his soule freme. — Trinity Homilies, 1225

• “frēme, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Proto-Germanic *frami- (“going forth”). Akin to Proto-Germanic *framaz (“forward”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfre.me/

freme

1. vigorous, flourishing
2. good, strenuous, bold
   • Fremu folces cwén. ― The folk's bold queen. (Beowulf)

freme f (nominative plural freman)

1. fremu, advantage, gain, benefit, profit, good
   • Ðæs we mágon fremena gewinnan. ― Of what we may advantages gain.

• fremednes (“accomplishment, fulfilment, effect”)
• fremful (“useful, profitable, beneficial, fremeful”)
• fremfullīċe (“efficaciously, successfully”)
• fremfulnes (“utility, profit”)
• fremman (“to further, advance, support, avail, benefit, do good”)
• fremlīċ (“profitable”)
• fremming (“purpose, effect, performance, progress”)
• fremsum (“beneficent, benign, kind, gracious”)
• fremsumlīċ (“benignant, kind”)
• fremsumllīċe (“benignantly, kindly”)
• fremsumnes (“benefit, benignity, kindness, liberality”)

• English: frim

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) “freme”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “freme”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.