frover

frover (third-person singular simple present frovers, present participle frovering, simple past and past participle frovered) (dialectal) To comfort; solace.

词形变化

frovers 三单 frovering 现在分词 frovered 过去式 frovered 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To comfort; solace.

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词源

From Middle English frovre, frofre (“comfort”), from Old English frōfor (“consolation, joy, refuge, compensation, help, benefit”), from Proto-West Germanic *frōbru (“solace”), from Proto-Indo-European *trep-, *terp- (“to have good food, prosper, satiate, enjoy”). Cognate with Old Saxon frōvra, frōfra (“consolation, comfort, help”), Old High German fluobara (“consolation, comfort, help, assistance”).

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