Fry
Middle English: from Old French frire, from Latin frigere .
wiktionary
From Middle English frien, borrowed from Old French frire, from Latin frīgō(“to roast, fry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-. Cognate with Ancient Greek φρύγω(phrúgō, “I roast, bake”), Sanskrit भृज्जति(bhṛjjati, “to roast, grill, fry”), भृग्(bhṛg, “the crackling of fire”)
From Middle English fry(“seed, offspring”), from Old Norse frjó(“seed, semen”), from Proto-Germanic *fraiwą(“seed, semen, offspring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per-, *(s)prei-(“to strew, sow”). Cognate with Icelandic frjó(“pollen, seed”), Icelandic fræ(“seed”), Swedish frö(“seed, embryo, grain, germ”), Danish and Norwegian frø(“seed”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍅( fraiw, “seed”).
Dialectal, of obscure origin.
etymonline
fry (v.)
late 13c., "cook (something) in a shallow pan over a fire," from Old French frire "to fry" (13c.), from Latin frigere "to roast or fry," from PIE *bher- "to cook, bake" (source also of Sanskrit bhrjjati "roasts," bharjanah "roasting;" Persian birishtan "to roast;" perhaps also Greek phrygein "to roast, bake"). Intransitive sense is from late 14c. U.S. slang meaning "execute in the electric chair" is U.S. slang from 1929. As a noun, "fried meat," from 1630s. Related: Fried; frying. Frying pan is recorded from mid-14c. (friing panne).
fry (n.)
early 14c. (late 13c. in Anglo-Latin), "young fish," probably from an Anglo-French noun from Old French frier, froier "to rub, spawn (by rubbing abdomen on sand)," from Vulgar Latin *frictiare. First applied to human offspring c. 1400, in Scottish. Some sources trace this usage, or the whole of the word, to Old Norse frjo, fræ "seed, offspring."
