friend
VERB:
1. to add (a person) to one's list of contacts on a social media website:
I just friended a couple of guys in my class.
2. to include (someone) in a list of designated friends on a person's social networking site.
3. if you friend someone, you ask them to be your friend on a social media website, so that you can see each other's posts.
4. add (someone) to a list of friends or contacts on a social networking website.
possibly rare or archaic:
to act as the friend of; to befriend.
Origin:
First recorded before 900; Middle English friend, frend, Old English frēond “friend, lover, relative” (cognate with Old Saxon friund, Old High German friunt (German Freund), Gothic frijōnds), originally the present participle of frēogan, cognate with Gothic frijōn “to love”. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of friend: Noun: before the 12th century. Verb: 13th century. History and Etymology: Noun and Verb: Middle English frend, from Old English frēond; akin to Old High German friunt friend, Old English frēon to love, frēo free. —Merriam-Webster. //
Old English frēond, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vriend and German Freund, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘to love’, shared by free. —Lexico.
Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4.
1. to add (a person) to one's list of contacts on a social media website:
I just friended a couple of guys in my class.
2. to include (someone) in a list of designated friends on a person's social networking site.
3. if you friend someone, you ask them to be your friend on a social media website, so that you can see each other's posts.
4. add (someone) to a list of friends or contacts on a social networking website.
possibly rare or archaic:
to act as the friend of; to befriend.
Origin:
First recorded before 900; Middle English friend, frend, Old English frēond “friend, lover, relative” (cognate with Old Saxon friund, Old High German friunt (German Freund), Gothic frijōnds), originally the present participle of frēogan, cognate with Gothic frijōn “to love”. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of friend: Noun: before the 12th century. Verb: 13th century. History and Etymology: Noun and Verb: Middle English frend, from Old English frēond; akin to Old High German friunt friend, Old English frēon to love, frēo free. —Merriam-Webster. //
Old English frēond, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vriend and German Freund, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘to love’, shared by free. —Lexico.
Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4.