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FREJ
Contents
Origin and Meaning
Germanic name element (see also FRO)
Ancient Germanic
*fraujan = 'lord', 'master' [1]
*frawan = 'lord', 'master' [1]
*frawan- = 'lord', 'master' [2]
*frawjan- = 'lord', 'master' [2]
*fraujôn = 'female ruler' [1]
Proto-Norse
*fraujaR = 'lord', 'master' [3] [4]
*frauja = 'lord', 'master' [5]
*frauja- = 'lord', 'master' [6] [7]
Old Norse
freyja = 'lady' or the goddess Freyja [8] [1] [9] [10]
frėyja = 'lady' or the goddess Freyja [11]
freyr = 'lord', 'master' or the god Freyr [8] [9] [10]
frú = 'lady' [8]
frû = 'lady' [1]
frúa = 'lady' [1]
Gothic
frauja = 'lord', 'master' [10] [9]
Old High German
frouwa = 'lady' [11] [9]
frouwe = 'lord', 'master' [10] [1]
frô = 'lord', 'master' [1] [2]
Middel Low German
frûwe = 'lady' [1]
Old Saxon
fraho = 'lord, master' [2]
frāo = 'lord, master' [9]
froho = 'lord, master' [2]
frôho = 'lord, master' [1]
froio = 'lord, master' [2]
frōio = 'lord, master' [10] [9]
frôio = 'lord, master' [1]
frōo = 'lord, master' [9]
frûa = 'lady' [1]
frūa = 'lady' [11] [9]
Anglo-Saxon
fréa = 'lord, master' [1]
frîgea = 'lord, master' [1]
Old English
fréa = 'lord, master' [9]
friega = 'lord, master' [10]
fríeġa = 'lord, master' [9]
Related Names
Combinations
| Name Element |
Example |
|---|---|
| ARN | see Arnfreyr |
| BJÖRN | see Frøybiǫrn |
| BORG | see Fröborg |
| DIS | see Frøydís |
| GEIR | see FrøygæiRR |
| GERD | see Frøygærðr |
| GUNN | see Frøygunnr |
| HER | see Freidar |
| KOL | see Kolfreyja |
| LAUG | see Frøylaug |
| LEIF | see Freyleif and Freilif |
| MANN | see Freymann |
| MAR | see Freymar |
| MOD | see Freymóður |
| MUND | see Frøymundr |
| ODD | see Oddfreyr |
| RIK | see FrøyríkR |
| STEIN | see Frøystæinn |
| UNN | see Freidunn |
| VALD | see Frøyvald |
| VAR | see *Fraujawaru (Norse) and Frēawaru (English) |
| VI | see Véfreyja |
| VID | see Freyviðr |
| VIN | see Frøwin |
| ÞOR | see Freyþór |
First Element Forms
*Frauja-
Frēa-
Frei-
Freid-
Frej-
Frey-
Frö-
Frø-
Frøy-
Last Element Forms
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 Hjalmar Falk & Alf Torp: Book: Etymologisk ordbok over det norske og det danske sprog|Etymologisk ordbok over det norske og det danske sprog]] (1999)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Per Vikstrand: Förkristna sakrala personnamn i Skandinavien (Studia anthroponymica Scandinavica 27 (2009), 5–31)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Lexikon över urnordiska personnamn (2004)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 9.9 Ferdinand Holthausen: Gotisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (1934)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Günther Drosdowski: Duden Etymologie - Herkunftswörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1997)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)