English fress

← Old English fretan (cognate)

← German fressen (borrowed)

← English for- (affix)

← English eat (affix)

← English fret (doublet)

← Proto-Germanic *fraetaną (derived)

← Proto-Germanic *fra- (mention)

← Proto-Germanic *etaną (mention)

← Middle High German vrezzen (derived)

← Old High German frezzan (derived)

← Yiddish פֿרעסן (borrowed)