# fro
## Translingual
### Symbol

fro
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Old French.

## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: [fɹəʊ]
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊ
* Homophones: 'fro, froe

### Etymology 1

From Middle English fro, fra, from Old English fra (“from”), from Old Norse frá (“from”), from Proto-Germanic *fram (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“forth, forward”). Cognate with Scots frae (“fro, from”), Icelandic frá (“from”). More at from.

#### Adverb

fro (not comparable)
* (archaic) From; away; back or backward.

##### Usage notes

In modern English, used only in the set phrase to and fro (“back and forth”).

##### Derived terms

* froward
* to and fro
* enfroward

#### Preposition

fro
* (obsolete) From.
** c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 15–16:The preest that hawkys so, All grace is far hym fro.

### Etymology 2

Clipping of afro.

#### Alternative forms

* 'fro

#### Noun

fro (plural fros)
* (slang) Clipping of afro (hairstyle).

##### Derived terms

* frohawk

### References

* ↑ Arika Okrent (2019 July 5) “12 Old Words That Survived by Getting Fossilized in Idioms”, in Mental Floss‎, Pocket, retrieved 2021-10-08

### See also

* fro-yo (etymologically unrelated)

### Anagrams

* FOR, ORF, for, for-, orf

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /froːˀ/, [ˈfʁ̥oˀ]

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German vrō (“happy”), from Proto-Germanic *frawaz (“energetic”), cognate with German froh, Old Norse frár (“swift”).

#### Adjective

fro
* happy, carefree

##### Derived terms

* skadefro

#### References

* “fro” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “fro,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Low German vrō (“early”, adverb).

#### Adverb

fro
* (obsolete) early
    Synonyms: tidligt, årle
** 1747, Speculum vitæ aulicæ, eller den fordanskede Reynike Fosz, page 234:Heel tilig meget froe, der Solen knap var oppe.Quite early, very early when the sun was barely on the heaven.

##### Derived terms

* frokost
* fromesse
* froprædiken

#### References

* “fro,2” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

## Luxembourgish
### Verb

fro
* second-person singular imperative of froen

## Middle English
### Adverb

fro
* from
** 14th Century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale
    That if I might skapen fro prisoun
       That if I can escape from prison

## Norman
### Alternative forms

* froc (Guernsey)

### Etymology

From Old French froc (“frock, a monk's gown or habit”), from Frankish *hrokk (“robe, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *hrukkaz (“robe, garment, cowl”), variant of *rukkaz (“upper garment, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *rug(')- (“upper clothes, shirt”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file) (Jersey)

### Noun

fro m (plural frocs)
* (Jersey, Guernsey) dress

#### Synonyms

* robe

## Old High German
### Alternative forms

* frao, frāo

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *frau, from Proto-Germanic *frawaz, whence also Old Norse frár (“swift”).

### Adjective

frō (inflected frawes)
* glad

#### Derived terms

* frewida

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: vrō
** Bavarian: froh
*** Cimbrian: fròo
** Central Franconian: fruh, froh
*** Luxembourgish: frou
** German: froh
** Silesian East Central German: fruh

## Old Saxon
### Alternative forms

* fra

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *frawaz, whence also Old Norse frár (“swift”).

### Adjective

frō (comparative frōworo, superlative frōwost)
* glad

#### Declension
## Welsh
### Pronunciation

IPA: /vroː/

### Noun

fro
* Soft mutation of bro.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.