frouwa

From Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ, from *frawjô, from Proto-Indo-European *per-. Cognate with Old Saxon frūa, Old English frōwe.

frouwa f

1. lady

• Middle High German: vrouwe, vrowe, frouwe, frowe, vrou, frou, vro, fro (before proper names), vrowe
  • Alemannic German: Frau
    • Alsatian: Fràui, Fràù, Frài, Froi, Fròi, Fraù, Frœy, Fráw, Frá
    • Walser: frou
  • Bavarian: Frau
    • Cimbrian: brau
  • Central Franconian: Fraa
    • Hunsrik: Fraa
    • Luxembourgish: Fra
  • East Central German: Fraa
    • Silesian East Central German: Froo
  • German: Frau, Fr. (abbreviation), Fraue (archaic), Fraw, Frawe (obsolete)
    • Unserdeutsch: Frau
    • → English: frau
    • → Russian: фра́у (fráu)
  • Rhine Franconian: Fraa
    • Pennsylvania German: Fraa
    • Palatine German: Fraa
  • Vilamovian: fraoj
  • Yiddish: פֿרוי (froy)

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
2. Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition