"Freyja" meaning in Old Norse

See Freyja in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: Freyju [genitive]
Etymology: From freyja (“lady”), from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ. Etymology templates: {{der|non|gem-pro|*frawjǭ}} Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ Head templates: {{head|non|proper noun|genitive|Freyju|or|||{{{datacc}}}||{{{dative}}}|g=f|g2=|head=|sort=|tr=}} Freyja f (genitive Freyju), {{non-proper noun|f|Freyju}} Freyja f (genitive Freyju)
  1. (Norse mythology) Freya, goddess associated with sex, death, and magic (see Freyja) Tags: Norse, feminine

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "lang_code": "is",
      "word": "Freyja"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "lang_code": "fo",
      "word": "Froya"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "lang_code": "no",
      "word": "Frøya"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Danish",
      "lang_code": "da",
      "word": "Freja"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Danish",
      "lang_code": "da",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "Fridlefsborg"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "word": "Freja"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "word": "Fröja"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "Froijenborg"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "Floyenborg"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "Freya"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*frawjǭ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From freyja (“lady”), from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Freyju",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "10": "{{{dative}}}",
        "2": "proper noun",
        "3": "genitive",
        "4": "Freyju",
        "5": "or",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "{{{datacc}}}",
        "9": "",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Freyja f (genitive Freyju)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "Freyju"
      },
      "expansion": "Freyja f (genitive Freyju)",
      "name": "non-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old Norse",
  "lang_code": "non",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old Norse entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "non",
          "name": "Gods",
          "orig": "non:Gods",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "non",
          "name": "Norse deities",
          "orig": "non:Norse deities",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "non",
          "name": "Norse mythology",
          "orig": "non:Norse mythology",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Freya, goddess associated with sex, death, and magic (see Freyja)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Freyja-non-name-mAxfCo~E",
      "links": [
        [
          "Norse",
          "Norse"
        ],
        [
          "mythology",
          "mythology"
        ],
        [
          "Freya",
          "Freya"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Norse mythology) Freya, goddess associated with sex, death, and magic (see Freyja)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Norse",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "mysticism",
        "mythology",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Freyja"
}
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "lang_code": "is",
      "word": "Freyja"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "lang_code": "fo",
      "word": "Froya"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "lang_code": "no",
      "word": "Frøya"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Danish",
      "lang_code": "da",
      "word": "Freja"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Danish",
      "lang_code": "da",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "Fridlefsborg"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "word": "Freja"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "word": "Fröja"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "Froijenborg"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "Floyenborg"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "Freya"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*frawjǭ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From freyja (“lady”), from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Freyju",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "10": "{{{dative}}}",
        "2": "proper noun",
        "3": "genitive",
        "4": "Freyju",
        "5": "or",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "{{{datacc}}}",
        "9": "",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Freyja f (genitive Freyju)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "Freyju"
      },
      "expansion": "Freyja f (genitive Freyju)",
      "name": "non-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old Norse",
  "lang_code": "non",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old Norse entries with incorrect language header",
        "Old Norse feminine nouns",
        "Old Norse lemmas",
        "Old Norse proper nouns",
        "Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
        "Pages with 4 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "non:Gods",
        "non:Norse deities",
        "non:Norse mythology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Freya, goddess associated with sex, death, and magic (see Freyja)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Norse",
          "Norse"
        ],
        [
          "mythology",
          "mythology"
        ],
        [
          "Freya",
          "Freya"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Norse mythology) Freya, goddess associated with sex, death, and magic (see Freyja)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Norse",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "mysticism",
        "mythology",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Freyja"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Freyja meaning in Old Norse (2.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Old Norse dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (05c257f and 9d9a410). 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.