"Frig" meaning in English

See Frig in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English Frīġ. Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|ang|Frīġ}} Learned borrowing from Old English Frīġ Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Frig
  1. Alternative form of Frigg. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Frigg
    Sense id: en-Frig-en-name-mcKsHE92 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for Frig meaning in English (2.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "Frīġ"
      },
      "expansion": "Learned borrowing from Old English Frīġ",
      "name": "lbor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Old English Frīġ.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Frig",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Frigg"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1943, F[rank] M[erry] Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford, Oxon: At the Clarendon Press, page 98",
          "text": "The cult of the fertility goddess Frig is sufficiently proved by the occurrence of her name in the Old English Frigedæg, the modern Friday. But no place of her worship has yet been identified with complete certainty, and her name was not used in the formation of English personal names. Seaxneat, the ancestor of the kings of Essex, was presumably honoured by their subjects, though the place-names which arose among them contain no trace of him. But Woden, Thunor, Tiw, and Frig are the only deities whose individualized worship in England is beyond dispute.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Marilyn Dunn, The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons c.597–c.700: Discourses of Life, Death and Afterlife, Continuum, published 2010, page 63",
          "text": "Alternatively, this group might consist of the goddess Frig, associated with two other female deities (possibly Eostre and Hretha?) – but we cannot be certain that the Anglo-Saxons worshipped Frig.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Bruce K. Wilborn, Witches’ Craft: A Multidenominational Wicca Bible, Skyhorse Publishing",
          "text": "Mighty God Woden, Merciful Goddess Frig, before me stand two people who have come of their own free will to break the bonds that made them as one. […] I cleanse these rings in the name of Woden and Frig.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Frigg."
      ],
      "id": "en-Frig-en-name-mcKsHE92",
      "links": [
        [
          "Frigg",
          "Frigg#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Frig"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "Frīġ"
      },
      "expansion": "Learned borrowing from Old English Frīġ",
      "name": "lbor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Old English Frīġ.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Frig",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Frigg"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English learned borrowings from Old English",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Old English",
        "English terms derived from Old English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1943, F[rank] M[erry] Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford, Oxon: At the Clarendon Press, page 98",
          "text": "The cult of the fertility goddess Frig is sufficiently proved by the occurrence of her name in the Old English Frigedæg, the modern Friday. But no place of her worship has yet been identified with complete certainty, and her name was not used in the formation of English personal names. Seaxneat, the ancestor of the kings of Essex, was presumably honoured by their subjects, though the place-names which arose among them contain no trace of him. But Woden, Thunor, Tiw, and Frig are the only deities whose individualized worship in England is beyond dispute.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Marilyn Dunn, The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons c.597–c.700: Discourses of Life, Death and Afterlife, Continuum, published 2010, page 63",
          "text": "Alternatively, this group might consist of the goddess Frig, associated with two other female deities (possibly Eostre and Hretha?) – but we cannot be certain that the Anglo-Saxons worshipped Frig.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Bruce K. Wilborn, Witches’ Craft: A Multidenominational Wicca Bible, Skyhorse Publishing",
          "text": "Mighty God Woden, Merciful Goddess Frig, before me stand two people who have come of their own free will to break the bonds that made them as one. […] I cleanse these rings in the name of Woden and Frig.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Frigg."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Frigg",
          "Frigg#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Frig"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (46b31b8 and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.