An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Frucht

by Friedrich Kluge

Frucht, feminine, ‘fruit, crop, product,’ from Middle High German vruht, Old High German fruht, feminine, ‘fruit’; corresponding to Old Saxon fruht, Dutch vrucht, Old Frisian frucht. Based on Latin fructus, which perhaps at the same period as Pflanze and a number of botanical terms, found its way into German.