Re: "Wife" (was: Homosexuality etc.)

Andreas Johansson wråt:


> This appear to be common for words refering to women; another case is _fru_
> which used to mean "lady" (=wife of a high-ranking nobleman - not just any
> woman of noble blood), but now is "wife". German _Frau_, of course, means
> simply "woman". The feminists probably has something to say about this ...
Does somebody know the Proto-Germanic and/or Old Englisc form of the word _Frau_
(pls specify vowel length, gender and type of stem)?

~~~~~~Yitzik~~~~~~

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