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vrouw.

woman

5 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/vrɑu̯/
  1. woman

    feminine
  2. wife

    feminine
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch vrouwe, from Old Dutch frouwa, vrouwa, from Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ. Vrouw replaced wijf as a neutral descriptor for a woman in the Early Modern period (see there for more), whereas vrouw mostly referred to well-off or aristocratic women in Middle Dutch. (In this latter sense, vrouw was itself superseded by dame, although the archaic form vrouwe is fossilized with the same aristocratic meaning.)

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