Frig

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English Frīġ.

Proper noun

Frig

1. Alternative form of Frigg.
   • 1943, F[rank] M[erry] Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford, Oxon: At the Clarendon Press, page 98:

     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.

   • 2009, Marilyn Dunn, The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons c.597–c.700: Discourses of Life, Death and Afterlife, Continuum, published 2010, →ISBN, page 63:

     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.

   • 2011, Bruce K. Wilborn, Witches’ Craft: A Multidenominational Wicca Bible, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:

     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.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *Frīju, from Proto-Germanic *Frijjō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /friːj/

Proper noun

Frīġ f

1. Frigg, the Germanic goddess of love, wife of Odin (Old English Wōden).

Usage notes

• Only attested in a handful of words which are either set phrases or compounds: frīġedæġ (“Friday”), frīġeǣfen (“Thursday evening”), frīġeniht (“Thursday night”), Frīġedene (Friden).

Declension

Declension of Frig (strong ō-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	Frīġ	—
accusative	Frīġe	—
genitive	Frīġe	—
dative	Frīġe	—

Synonyms

• Fricg

Derived terms

• frīġedæġ