Etymology

Freyr

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Today it means: A Vanir god associated with kingship and virility in the North Germanic corpus, in which he rides the shining boar Gullinbursti and wields an antler as a weapon. He is sometimes referred to as Yngvi-Freyr. Full definition →

Old Norse Freyr ← Proto-Germanic *frawjô
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  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*frawjô“lord”
  2. Old Norse · learned borrowing fromFreyr
  3. English todayFreyr

Learned borrowing from Old Norse Freyr, from Proto-Germanic *frawjô (“lord”). Compare Freya, from the feminine counterpart.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.