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
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