An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/freventlich

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, F
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

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2518556An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, F — freventlichJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

freventlich, adverb, ‘sacrilegiously,’ first occurs in Modern High German, formed like eigentlich, wesentlich, &c., from the Middle High German adjective vrevele, but with a change of the suffix l into n.