frá

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See also: fra, Fra, FRA, frå, fra-, and fra.

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse frá, from Proto-Germanic *fram.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /frauː/
Rhymes: -auː

Preposition

frá

(with dative) from, away from, about

Derived terms

bíta frá sér
dag frá degi (“from one day to the next”)
fara frá
frá morgni til kvölds (“from morning to evening”)
segja frá (“to tell about”)
til eða frá
upp frá því (“from then on”)
vera ekki frá því að
vera frá sér (“to be out of one's mind”)
vera frá, koma frá (“to come from, to be from, to hail from”)

Adverb

frá

adverbial form of preposition, used in compounds

Derived terms

héðan í frá (“from now on”)
til og frá (“to and fro”)
út í frá (“among strangers”)
vera af og frá (“to be out of the question”)

Anagrams

fár

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *fram (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“forth, forward”). Cognate with Old English fram, Old Saxon fram, Old Dutch fram-, Old High German fram, Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌼 (fram).

Preposition

frá

(with dative) from, away from, about

Adverb

frá (not comparable)

Descendants

Icelandic: frá
Faroese: frá
Norwegian Nynorsk: frå
Elfdalian: frą̊
Old Swedish: frā
- ⇒ Old Swedish: frān
  - Swedish: från
Old Danish: fra, fraa, fran
- Danish: fra
  - Norwegian Bokmål: fra
→ Old English: fra
- Middle English: fra, fro
  - English: fro
  - Geordie English: frae, fra
  - Scots: frae, fra, fro, fae

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

frá

first/third-person singular past active indicative of fregna

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