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fru
Swedish
/frʉː/
noun
Definitions
lady
wife; married woman
(archaic) Mrs; title used before a married woman's surname
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse frú.
Origin
Old Norse
frú
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
Cognates
frow
English
frue
Norwegian Bokmål
*frawjǭ
Proto-Germanic
frue
Norwegian Nynorsk
frú
Old Norse
frue
Danish
frøken
Danish
havfrue
Danish
morgenfrue
Danish
frú
Icelandic
vrouwe
Middle Dutch
frøkun
Faroese
frúgv
Faroese
vrouweken
Middle Low German
frūa
Old Saxon
fru
Norn
Derived Terms