Old French "framboise" 'raspberry', from OF "frambeise", from OLF "*brāmbesi" 'blackberry' (cf. Dutch "braambes", "braambezie"; akin to German "Brombeere", English dial. "bramberry") blended with LL "fraga" or OF "fraie" 'strawberry', which explains the replacement > and in turn the final "-se" of "framboise" added to OF "fraie" to make "freise", modern "fraise" (≠ Wallon "frève", Romanian "fragă", Romansh "fraja", Italian "fragola", "fravola" 'strawberry'). Pope (1934) estimated that perhaps still 15% of the vocabulary of modern French derives from Germanic sources (while the proportion was larger in Old French, because the French language borrowed heavily from Latin and Italian). At the third Council
Framboise River and unrecovered metals directly into the brook. The mine was reopened from 1952 to 1956, with the waste now impounded in a tailings pond. The brook flows slowly eastward through low-gradient swampy reaches for to join the Framboise River estuary from the coast. There is a small deltaic fan at the mouth of the brook. It is not clear whether the quality of water and sediments in the Frambois River have been degraded by the dispersal of the tailings. Framboise River Framboise River is an estuarine river in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. The Framboise River (CAMVI) is an