Noun: fruma
Gender: m
Nominative
| Singular | fruma |
| Plural | fruman |
Genitive
| Singular | fruman |
| Plural | frumena |
Dative
| Singular | fruman |
| Plural | frumum |
Accusative
| Singular | fruman |
| Plural | fruman |
Sample Sentences
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This beginning was terrible for the landfolk (...) [Beowulf wæs se fruma egeslíc / léodum on lande (...)]
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late 9th century, Old English Martyrology
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On þone eahteðan ġeohheldæg bið þǣs mōnðes fruma þe mon nemneð Ianuarius, þæt is on ūre ġeþēode sē æftera geola. (On the eight day after Christmas there is the beginning of the month known [in Latin] as Januarius, which is in our atheed the After-Yule.)
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Beowulf wine Scyldinga / léof landfruma lange áhte friend of the Scyldings / beloved landruler [who] long owned [it] (Then the goldenhilt, an ancient work of giants, was given into the hands of the old king, the grey-haired battleleader)
Nouns inflected like fruma
sealma,
cristalla,
snecga,
smitta,
sogoþa,
yrfenuma,
selfbana,
bedreda,
worhana,
uuituma,
merefara,
collecta,
hringedstefna,
wyrtwala,
wyrtruma,
ferðloca,
græshoppa,
ferþloca,
forespreca,
græsstapa, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *frumô, from the stem *fur-, *fr- (Old English for, for-) + the rarer comparative suffix *-umô. Cognate with Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌿𐌼𐌰 (fruma), Latin prīmus. See: Old English Nouns '
for', Latin Nouns '
prīmus'.
Verbs referencing "fruma"
English Nouns
prince, Latin Nouns
princeps.
Translations