frue
Danish
/fruːə/
noun
Definitions
- (formal) lady a married adult woman
- (formal) Mrs, ma'am a polite address of an adult women
- (formal) wife
- (historical) lady, mistress a woman that rules in area
Etymology
Derived from Old Saxon frūa derived from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ (lady, mistress).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*frawjǭ
Gloss
lady, mistress
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
婦
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- frau English
- Alibifrau German
- Ampelfrau German
- Buhfrau German
- Ehefrau German
- Ersatzfrau German
- Exfrau German
- Feuerwehrfrau German
- Frau German
- Frauchen German
- Frauenarzt German
- Frauenfuß German
- Frauenhaus German
- Frauenmörder German
- Frauenstimme German
- Frauenversammlung German
- Frauenversteher German
- Frauenzimmer German
- Fräulein German
- Geschäftsfrau German
- Hausfrau German
- Jungfrau German
- Liebfrauenmilch German
- Müllfrau German
- Putzfrau German
- Sauberfrau German
- Traumfrau German
- Trümmerfrau German
- Weltfrauentag German
- Zimmerfrau German
- Zweitfrau German
- fraulich German
- ambachtsvrouwe Dutch, Flemish
- vrouwe Dutch, Flemish
- фрау Russian
- *proHwo- Proto-Indo-European
- *prōw- Proto-Indo-European
- *frawjǭ Proto-Germanic
- fru Swedish
- Freyja Old Norse
- freyja Old Norse
- frouva Old Norse
- frú Old Norse
- frøken Danish
- hav Danish
- havfrue Danish
- morgen Danish
- morgenfrue Danish
- frouwa Old High German
- frøkun Faroese
- vrouwe Middle High German
- Fra Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- Jongfra Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *frōwa Old Dutch
- frouwa Old Dutch
- vrouweken Middle Low German
- vrûwe Middle Low German
- frua Old Saxon
- frūa Old Saxon