fru
Norn
noun
Definitions
- woman
- wife
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse frú inherited 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
- *proHwo- Proto-Indo-European
- *prōw- Proto-Indo-European
- frue Norwegian Bokmål
- *frawjǭ Proto-Germanic
- fru Swedish
- frue Norwegian Nynorsk
- Freyja Old Norse
- freyja Old Norse
- frouva Old Norse
- frú Old Norse
- frú Icelandic
- frouwa Old High German
- frúgv Faroese
- *frōwa Old Dutch
- frouwa Old Dutch
- vrouweken Middle Low German
- frua Old Saxon
- frūa Old Saxon