frá

See also: fra, Fra, FRA, frå, fra-, and fra.

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse frá, from Proto-Germanic *fram.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /frauː/
  • Rhymes: -auː

Preposition

frá

  1. from, away from, about [with dative]

Derived terms

  • bíta frá sér
  • dag frá degi (“from one day to the next”)
  • fara frá
  • frá morgni til kvölds (“from morning to evening”)
  • segja frá (“to tell about”)
  • til eða frá
  • upp frá því (“from then on”)
  • vera ekki frá því að
  • vera frá sér (“to be out of one's mind”)
  • vera frá, koma frá (“to come from, to be from, to hail from”)

Adverb

frá

  1. adverbial form of preposition, used in compounds

Derived terms

  • héðan í frá (“from now on”)
  • til og frá (“to and fro”)
  • út í frá (“among strangers”)
  • vera af og frá (“to be out of the question”)

Anagrams

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *fram (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“forth, forward”). Cognate with Old English fram, Old Saxon fram, Old Dutch fram-, Old High German fram, Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌼 (fram).

Preposition

frá

  1. from, away from, about [with dative]

Adverb

frá (not comparable)

  1. away
  2. hence, henceforth
  3. secondly, next
Descendants
  • Icelandic: frá
  • Faroese: frá
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: frå
  • Elfdalian: frą̊
  • Old Swedish: frā
  • Old Danish: fra, fraa, fran
    • Danish: fra
      • Norwegian Bokmål: fra
  • → Old English: fra

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

frá

  1. first/third-person singular past active indicative of fregna
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