FREAK (Hi)FReeYG Hey- Phey-Resh-Yod-Gimel
(HI)-FREEG ____ ___הפריג________[PH-R-G à FRK]
ROOTS: The dictionaries, in a FREAK (unusual) display of candor admit "origin unknown" for this one.
The FRK Biblical Hebrew terms at "FREE" will do well to match the capricious, whimsical and disordered connotations of FREAK. Abnormal behavior, as in the slang phrase "to FREAK OUT," is precisely the kind of abrupt, emotional change of mood in the Aramaic verb
הפריג
HiFReeYG.
לפרקיםL’FRaQeeYeeM means "on rare occasions." פרועה PaROO[A]H means unrestrained and disorderly, but also a more FERAL wildness – see “FEROC IOUS.”
After the Golden Calf (Exodus 32:25) , Moses sees that the Israelites are FaRooGHah, פרעPey-Resh-Ayin, “broken loose,” later in JPS “out of control.” See "BREAK" and "PERK."
פרע PaRooGHah, akin to FRK, is translated as “unbridled, unruly” by Harkavy, and B-Y cites extensions meaning riot, to plunder and to cause disorder. Riotously loose hair, the פרע PeR[A]h of Numbers 5:18 (related to PILIFORM, hairy, PL words at “PILE”) can be a good FREAKY.
But a FREAK outbreak of rioting is bad and FREAKISH, like the outbreak of disease: פרח PeRaK[H] (Leviticus 13:12 – see “BREAK”).
We may thus see פרע Pey-Resh-Ayin as the פר Pey-Resh sub-root of spreading and breaking out seen in words like פרד PaRaD (to spread, see “SPREAD”) and פרץ PaRaTS (to break forth, breach, see “BURST”), with the רע Resh-Ayin of bad behavior seen at “WRONG.” (Al L. Ansley)
BRANCHES: It’s daringly non-conformist, even FREAKY, to be FRANK. FRANK is from Middle Latin francus (free, at liberty). The word is nasalized, but is a fine semantic match for פרע Pey-Resh-Ayin seen below at “FREE.”
FREE FaRoo[A]h Phey-Resh-Ayin
FAR-OO-AH___ _____פרע________[PH-R-U]
ROOTS: The so-called IE “root” of FREE is pri (to love). The FREEDOM of free love is a nice 1960’s fantasy, but Anglo-Saxon freo means “not in bondage.”
פרע PHaRoo[A]h or PaRoo[A]h is unrestrained or "broken loose" in Exodus 32:25. The term is rendered "threw off constraints" in II Chronicles 28:19.
The Ayin of פ-ר-עPey-Resh-Ayin, as usual, can be a vowel, like FRE, or a guttural, like PR-GH. פ-ר-ע Pey-Resh-Ayin is therefore related to both פרק PaRaQ (to free, untie, loosen, save, brake off a yoke --- Genesis 27:40 ) and פרא PeReEh (wild - Genesis 16:12).
The פ Pey or פ-ר Phey-Resh / P(H)-R subroot indicates breaking out or spreading forth in scores of Hebrew words – see “BREAK,” “FREAK,” "FRUIT," "SPARROW," and "SPREAD."
BRANCHES: German frech is impudent, brazen, fresh . From the German we can see that this unrestrained, FRESH, FREAKY behavior is from Pey-Resh-Ayin ( a guttural, not a fricative like SH.)
A breaker of the national yoke of repression is a savior. By Daniel 4:24 פרק PiRaQ means to deliver or redeem. On Sabbath mornings Jews pray that a פרקן PaRQahN (redeemer in Aramaic) will come to rescue them. They are not invoking Rev. Louis Farrakhan, whose surname means “redeemer” in Arabic.
While their loving definition may be way off, some of the AHD’s cognates for FREE may be valid: AFRAY, FILIBUSTER, FRIEND, FRIGG (Odin’s loving, or unrestrained, wife) and her day: FRIDAY and SIEGFRIED.
Edenecist Al. L. Ansley notes the PHYRGIAN hat is a symbol of freedom, especially in French Revolutionary and Masonic art. The P-R-guttural name of PHRYGIA comes from the Greek Ipirycs (freemen). So these are from our פרע Phey-Resh-Ayin root of freedom.