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phreeza 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Scandal at America's top science fair

No it more likely comes from archaic "freien", which still is used for "to marry" but used to mean something slightly different ;)

fransje26 7 months ago [–]

They still use a variant of that word in Dutch: vrijen. With the old meaning.. ;)

actionfromafar 7 months ago | [–]

The even older meaning is "courter".

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