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Gothic roots
Language contexts for this entry: Spanish, Portuguese, Galician
[ˈfɾoi̯.la] · Spanish
01 / Meaning & origin
Froila is a masculine given name documented in Spanish, Portuguese and Galician. English Wiktionary traces it to Gothic.
From Gothic or Suevic, from Proto-Germanic *frawjô ("lord", from Proto-Indo-European *proHwo-, a derivation from *per-, "to go forward") and the male diminutive suffix *-ilô (compare Attila, Wulfila).
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Froila— “Lord”
Old Spanish has Froila, or Fruela, among the kings of the Asturias, and this may be translated lord, and compared with the Freavine, or Frowin, free darling, now become Frewen. Franta, too, was a king of the Spanish Suevi.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter II (Names From Teuton Mythology), Section IV (Frey) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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