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Middle English
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Frea
- (Early Middle English) a female given name, the Goddess Frigg
- c. 1200, Layamon's Brut, MS. Cott. Otho, C. XIII. line 6946:
ȝeo hiſ i-hote Frea- she is named Frea (Translation by Sir Frederick Madden)
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *Frīju. Cognate with Old High German Friia, Old English Frīġ, Old Norse Frigg.
Proper noun
Frea m
- (Lombardic) Frigg, the wife of Odin