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Help[Surname] Re: Is Friley a Americanized spelling of Fröelich?
in reply to a message by Olive
You cannot go from Fröhlich to Freilich in High German, because there is the word freilich "of course, obviously" in the way.
But there is Yiddish, where frailikh is the cognate of fröhlich, and it is possible to americanise this to Friley.
But there is Yiddish, where frailikh is the cognate of fröhlich, and it is possible to americanise this to Friley.
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