frou
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
- Frau (Basel)
- Fràui (Alsatian)
- Fràù (Sierentz)
- Frài (Soultzmatt)
- Froi (Munster (Haut-Rhin))
- Fròi (Logelheim, Colmar, Durrenentzen, Wintzenheim)
- Fraù (Strasbourg)
- Frœy (Kochersberg, Betschdorf)
- Fráw (Kindwiller)
- Frá (Wingen-sur-Moder)
Etymology
From Middle High German vrouwe, vrowe from Old High German frouwa. Cognate with German Frau, Dutch vrouwe, West Frisian frou, Icelandic freyja.
Noun
frou f (Gressoney)
Further reading
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Middle High German vrō, from Old High German frō. Cognate with German froh.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /freu̯/, [fʀəʊ̯]
Audio: (file)
Adjective
frou (masculine frouen, neuter frout, comparative méi frou, superlative am frousten)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| predicative | hien ass | si ass | et ass | si si(nn) | |
| nominative / accusative |
attributive and/or after determiner | frouen | frout | ||
| independent without determiner | froues | frouer | |||
| dative | after any declined word | frouen | frouer | frouen | frouen |
| as first declined word | frouem | frouem | |||
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian frowe
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /frɔu̯/
Noun
frou c (plural froulju or frouwen, diminutive froutsje)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “frou”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011