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

Ic wrát:

> > Does somebody know the Proto-Germanic and/or Old Englisc form of the word
> _Frau_
> > (pls specify vowel length, gender and type of stem)?
Joe wrát:

> The PG would have been "frú", I think.  I think it was lost in OE, but it
> would have been feminine, and, while I'm not sure, I would have expected it
> to be a u-stem.
Ac David Barrow wrát:

> OE frówe . f.  woman
Ðann Joe wrát:

> Okay.  My dictionary seems to be lacking that.  Probably not "frú", then.
Thank you, friends. It looks like my dictionary has lots of lacunas. Still it's
a bit mysterious form, since masc. is _fréa_ || Gth. _frauja_, OHG _fró_ (m.),
_frouwa_ (f.); that would imply fe. form *fréawe or *fréowe, from PG root with
*-au-. What d'ya think?

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