- *
Fraujaz or *Frauwaz (Old High
German frô for
earlier frôjo, frouwo, Old
Saxon frao, frōio,
Gothic frauja, Old
English frēa, Old
Norse freyr), feminine...
-
national god of the Saxons. He is
sometimes identified with
either Tīwaz or
Fraujaz (Old
Norse Týr and Freyr). The Old
English form Seaxnēat is
recorded in...
- the
vroonhof or vroenhoeve, a word
derived from the Proto-Germanic word
fraujaz,
meaning "lord". This was also
called a hof and the lord's
house a hofstede...
- in the
nominative case and *Ingwin in the
accusative case. His
epithet *
Fraujaz appears in Old
Norse compounds Ingvifreyr and Ingunarfreyr. In Beowulf...
- Frawisinda, Freawaru; Friher, Frehild,
Friulf c.f. Fróði;
theophoric (see
Fraujaz, Frijjō). frig, freh bold Y Frigobert, Frehholt,
Friculf frod wise, prudent...
- *fraiwa- was
metathesized from *frawja-, a
collective of some kind." See *
Fraujaz for
further discussion. *Frawjōn – OS frūa, OHG
frouwa ON
Freyja (theonym)...
- Frēawaru is
derived from PN *fraujawaru,
where the
first element is *
fraujaz ("lord") and the
second a
feminization of *-waraz, an
agent noun of *warōn...
