fria

• fréithe
• froithi

• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /fˠɾˠeː/

fria (emphatic friasa)

1. third-person singular feminine of fré

friā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of friō

• fria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

fria (present tense friar, past tense fria, past participle fria, passive infinitive friast, present participle friande, imperative fria/fri)

1. Alternative form of fri (“to free”)
2. Alternative form of fri (“to propose marriage”)

• fari, fira

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸʲrʲi.a]

frïa (triggers lenition in the masculine/neuter singular, /h/-prothesis in the feminine singular, and eclipsis in the plural)

1. Univerbation of fri +‎ a (“his, her, its, their”)

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: fri‧a

fria

1. feminine singular of frio

fria

1. inflection of fri:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

From Old Norse frjá, from Proto-Germanic *frijōną.

fria (present friar, preterite friade, supine friat, imperative fria)

1. to propose; to ask for one's hand in marriage
2. to acquit; to clean someone from suspicions of wrongdoing; to find not guilty

   Synonym: frikänna

3. (refereeing) to not blow the whistle, to let the game play on

• → Finnish: riiata, riiustaa, friiata

propose

• friare
• frieri

acquit

• befria

• fira