Freckle

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late Middle English: alteration of dialect frecken, from Old Norse freknur (plural).

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From Middle English freken, frekel, from Old Norse freknurpl (compare Swedish fräknar, Danish fregner), s-less variant of Old English sprecel from Proto-Germanic *sprekalą(“freckle”) (compare dialectal Norwegian sprekla, Middle High German spreckel), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g-(“to strew, sprinkle”). Cognate with Albanian fruth(“measles”). More at spark. Related to spry, sprack.

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freckle (n.)

late 14c., also frecken, probably from Old Norse freknur (plural) "freckles" (source also of Icelandic frekna, Danish fregne, Swedish frägne "freckle"), from PIE *(s)preg- (2) "to jerk, scatter" (see sprout (v.)). Related: Freckles.

freckle (v.)

"to cover with spots," 1610s, from freckle (n.). Related: Freckled (from late 14c. as "spotted"); freckling.