Vrouwelijk
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vrouw

(Engels)

  1. (feminine) woman
  2. (feminine) wife

Frequentie

A1
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/vrɑu̯/
Etymologie (Engels)

In summary

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 (In this latter sense, vrouw was itself superseded by dame, although the archaic form vrouwe is fossilized with the same aristocratic meaning.)

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