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
Kristine French Kristine French Kristine French is an Australian plant biologist who is a Professor at the University of Wollongong, where she has directed the Janet Cosh Herbarium since 1992. She is known for researching the ecology of weeds, studying urban ecology and "endangered species and forest ecology." French gained her B.Sc. (Hons) from the University of Sydney in 1984. She earned her doctorate from Monash University in 1989. Her thesis is entitled "Fruit/bird interactions in wet sclerophyll forest in Australia: the influence of fruit characteristics and the role of birds as seed disposal agents". French is a professor at the Institute