Fraa
Central Franconian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German vrouwe.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Fraa f (plural Fraaleit or Frahe, diminutive Frääche or Fraache)
- (most of Moselle Franconian) woman, wife
- 1874, Peter Joseph Rottmann, Gedichte in Hunsrücker Mundart, page 4:
- Sei sefriere! wann eich brav Karline
Loorde in dem naue Lann verdiene,
Kumm eich wierer, unn Dau gist mei Fraa.- Be content! When I, dear Karline,
Am making loads in that foreign land,
I will come back and you will be my wife.
- Be content! When I, dear Karline,
Descendants
[edit]East Central German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German vrouwe, vrowe, from the Old High German frouwa. Compare German Frau.
Noun
[edit]Fraa f
Further reading
[edit]- 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 44:
Hunsrik
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Central Franconian Fraa, from Middle High German vrouwe, from Old High German frouwa, from Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ, from *frawjô, from Proto-Indo-European *per-.[1]
Cognate with German Frau, Luxembourgish Fra and Pennsylvania German Fraa.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Fraa f (plural Fraae, diminutive Fraache)
- woman
- Synonym: Fraamensch
- Sie is en scheene Fraa.
- She is a pretty woman.
- wife
- Gret is mein Fraa.
- Gret is my wife.
- Miss (form of address for a woman)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Fraa”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 59, column 1
Pennsylvania German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German vrouwe, vrowe, from the Old High German frouwa. Compare German Frau, Dutch vrouw.
Noun
[edit]Fraa f (plural Weiwer)
Usage notes
[edit]- The plural actually comes from the term Weib, which in its singular is rarely used.
Rhine Franconian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German vrouwe, vrowe, from the Old High German frouwa. Compare German Frau, Dutch vrouw.
Noun
[edit]Fraa
References
[edit]- Verse und Reime eines alten Pfälzers, in pfälzischer Mundart (1864): e guti Fraa
- Central Franconian terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Central Franconian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (fare)
- Central Franconian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Central Franconian terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Central Franconian terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Central Franconian terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Central Franconian terms derived from Middle High German
- Central Franconian terms derived from Old High German
- Central Franconian terms inherited from Middle High German
- Central Franconian terms inherited from Old High German
- Central Franconian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Central Franconian lemmas
- Central Franconian nouns
- Central Franconian feminine nouns
- Moselle Franconian
- Central Franconian terms with quotations
- East Central German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- East Central German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- East Central German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- East Central German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- East Central German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- East Central German terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- East Central German terms inherited from Middle High German
- East Central German terms derived from Middle High German
- East Central German terms inherited from Old High German
- East Central German terms derived from Old High German
- East Central German lemmas
- East Central German nouns
- East Central German feminine nouns
- Erzgebirgisch
- gmw-ecg:People
- Hunsrik terms inherited from Old High German
- Hunsrik terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Hunsrik terms derived from Old High German
- Hunsrik terms derived from Central Franconian
- Hunsrik terms derived from Middle High German
- Hunsrik terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (fare)
- Hunsrik terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Hunsrik terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Hunsrik terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Hunsrik terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Hunsrik terms inherited from Middle High German
- Hunsrik terms inherited from Central Franconian
- Hunsrik 1-syllable words
- Hunsrik terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Hunsrik/ɔː
- Rhymes:Hunsrik/ɔː/1 syllable
- Hunsrik lemmas
- Hunsrik nouns
- Hunsrik feminine nouns
- Hunsrik terms with usage examples
- hrx:People
- hrx:Female
- hrx:Female family members
- hrx:Marriage
- hrx:Titles
- Hunsrik terms of adress
- Pennsylvania German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Pennsylvania German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Pennsylvania German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Pennsylvania German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Pennsylvania German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Pennsylvania German terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Pennsylvania German terms inherited from Middle High German
- Pennsylvania German terms derived from Middle High German
- Pennsylvania German terms inherited from Old High German
- Pennsylvania German terms derived from Old High German
- Pennsylvania German lemmas
- Pennsylvania German nouns
- Pennsylvania German feminine nouns
- Rhine Franconian terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Rhine Franconian terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Rhine Franconian terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Rhine Franconian terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Rhine Franconian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Rhine Franconian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Rhine Franconian terms inherited from Middle High German
- Rhine Franconian terms derived from Middle High German
- Rhine Franconian terms inherited from Old High German
- Rhine Franconian terms derived from Old High German
- Rhine Franconian lemmas
- Rhine Franconian nouns
- Palatine German