Etymograph

English

Freyja

Freyja comes from Old Norse Freyja ‘lady’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*frawjǭ‘lady, wife of a lord’next step skipped: Old Norse freyja
  2. Old Norsec. 800–1350Freyja‘lady’
  3. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*frawjǭ‘lady, wife of a lord’next step skipped: Old Norse freyja
  2. Old Norsec. 800–1350Freyja‘lady’
  3. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ ‘lady, wife of a lord’

frau, 4 more

Today it means

name A deity among the Vanir associated with sex, death, and seiðr, who receives half of those who die in battle in the afterlife field Fólkvangr (the other half going to Odin's hall, Valhalla), and whose brother is Freyr.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ / Freyja

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