Fraa

• Frau (Ripuarian, parts of Moselle Franconian)
• Froo (rare Moselle Franconian variant)

From Middle High German vrouwe.

• IPA^(key): /fʀaː/

Fraa f (plural Fraaleit or Frahe, diminutive Frääche or Fraache)

1. (most of Moselle Franconian) woman, wife
   • 1874, Peter Joseph Rottmann, Gedichte in Hunsrücker Mundart, page 4:

     Sei sefriere! wann eich brav Karline
     Loorde in dem naue Lann verdiene,
     Kumm eich wierer, unn Dau gist mei Fraa.

     Be content! When I, dear Karline,
     Am making loads in that foreign land,
     I will come back and you will be my wife.

• Hunsrik: Fraa
• Luxembourgish: Fra

From Middle High German vrouwe, vrowe, from the Old High German frouwa. Compare German Frau.

Fraa f

1. (Erzgebirgisch) woman
2. (Erzgebirgisch) wife

• Hendrik Heidler (11 June 2020), Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[1] (in German), 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 44

• Froo (Altenhofen spelling)
• fraa (Wiesemann spelling)

Inherited from Central Franconian Fraa, from Middle High German vrouwe, from Old High German frouwa, from Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ, from *frawjô, from Proto-Indo-European *per-.^[1] Cognate with German Frau, Luxembourgish Fra and Pennsylvania German Fraa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrɔː/
• Rhymes: -ɔː
• Syllabification: Fraa

Fraa f (plural Fraae, diminutive Fraache)

1. woman

   Synonym: Fraamensch

   • 2021, Piter Kehoma Boll, “Fraa”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 59, column 1:

     Sie is en scheene Fraa

     She is a pretty woman.

2. wife
   • 2021, Piter Kehoma Boll, “Fraa”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 59, column 1:

     Gret is mein Fraa

     Gret is my wife.

3. Miss (form of address for a woman)

From Middle High German vrouwe, vrowe, from the Old High German frouwa. Compare German Frau, Dutch vrouw.

Fraa f (plural Weiwer)

1. woman
2. wife

• The plural actually comes from the term Weib, which in its singular is rarely used.

From Middle High German vrouwe, vrowe, from the Old High German frouwa. Compare German Frau, Dutch vrouw.

Fraa

1. (many dialects, including Palatine) woman

• Verse und Reime eines alten Pfälzers, in pfälzischer Mundart (1864): e guti Fraa