frod

From Old Norse fróðr, from Proto-Germanic *frōdaz.

• IPA^(key): /fruː/

frod (neuter frodt, definite singular and plural frode, comparative frodare, indefinite superlative frodast, definite superlative frodaste)

1. (poetic) wise

Male given names:

From Proto-Germanic *frōdaz.

• IPA^(key): /froːd/

frōd

1. (poetic) wise, experienced
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     Sē þonne þisne wealsteal · wīse ġeþōhte
     ond þis deorce līf · dēope ġeondþenċeð,
     frōd in ferðe, · feor oft ġemon
     wælsleahta worn, · ond þās word ācwið:

     Then he deeply thinks over this wall-place
     and this dark life with wise thought,
     shrewd in mind, oft recalls the long bygone
     swarm of slaughters, and utters these words:

2. (poetic) old, mature

• frōdian (“to be wise or prudent”)
• unfrōdnes f (“ignorance, lack of wisdom”)

• Middle English: *frod, *frode, *frood
  • English: frood
  • Scots: frood

• dīgol n (“a secret place, the grave, darkness”)
• earendel m (“the dawn star or such light”)
• hundændlæftiġ (“the number 110, eleventy”)
• sāmwīs (“foolish”)
• scīr f (“a shire, an administrative district”)
• smēah (“subtle, penetrating, creeping”)
• sting m (“a sting, stab, or thrust”)

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “frod”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.