FRÜCHD

varieties

FRÜCHD (plur. FRÜCHDA) can mean 'fruit' (literally): fragments 6/29*, 47/9, 136/4, 167/11, 189/15 and 19, 104/1, 166/20, 167/20

or (plur.) 'fruits'/'results' (metaphorically): fragments 9/15, 12/15, 207/5

or 'delight'/'joy': fragments 6/29*, 49/15

(*unclear/ambiguous: either 'fruits' or 'delight')

in compound FRÜCHDBER/-BÀR: 'fertile': fragments 83/30, 165/20

The short variety FRÜ is only used for 'delight'/'joy': fragments 93/22, 139/11, 94/25, 126/15

as compound FRÜ.LIK/FRO.LIK a female name: fragment 133/32, 126/15

Derived from FRÜ are words used for wife/woman: FRO, FROW; see fragment 126/15

cognates

literal meaning 'fruit'

• fruit - English, French
• vrucht, fruit - Dutch
• Frucht - German, Frisian, Danish
• frukt - Norse, Swedish
• fruct - Romanian
• фрукт - Russian, Ukrainian
• vrug - Afrikaans
• φρούτο - Greek
• frutto - Italian
• fruta - Basque, Portuguese, Spanish
• fruita - Catalan
• fruttu - Corsican
• ffrwyth - Welsh

metaphoric meaning 'delight'/'joy' (etc.)

• vreugde - Dutch (older spellings: vroude, vreuchde, vruechde, vreude, etc.)
• freugde - Frisian
• Freude - German
• fröjd - Swedish
• frygd/frygð - late Old Norse

derivative 'wife'/'woman'

• fru - Swedish
• vrouw - Dutch
• Frau - German
• frou(we) - Frisian
• frūa - Old Saxon
• frú(a) - Old Norse
• frauja - Gothic

dictionaries

A relation between fruit, freude and fru is not recognised by oldschool etymologists (as far as I know).

fragments

FRÜCHD-

[006/29] RING AS HJA RIP WÉRON KRÉJON HJA FRÜCHDA ÀND NOCHTA ANDA DRÁMA

[009/15] THÀT SEND THA FRÜCHDA THINERA YDLENISE

[012/15] THJU ARBÉD ÀND THA FRÜZDA (FRÜCHDA) NÉI RJUCHTA DÉLA

[047/09] ANDA BÁMA ÀND TRÉJON WAXTON FRÜZDA (FRÜCHDA) ÁND NOCHTA THÉR NW VRLÉREN SEND

[049/15] INNA THA HIRTA THÉRA MÀNNISKA NAS BLÍDSKIP NACH FRÜCHD

[083/30] HWAT HJA KÉTH HÀVE SKIL FORTH BILÍWA AND FRÜCHDBER WERTHA

[104/01] THÀT ET KÍMA GROJA ÀND FRÜCHDA JÉVA MÉI

[136/04] JRTHA HETH HJARA BLOD DRUNKEN. MITH THÀT BLOD FODE HJU FRÜCHDA ÀND NOCHTA

[165/20] AFWIXLATH MITH FJELDUM ÀND WALDUM. FRUCHTBÀR (FRÜCHDBÀR) AN ALLE DÉLUM

[166/20] SE HOLDON HJARA SELVA TWISK BLOM AND FRUCHTA (FRÜCHDA) SKUL

[167/11] THÉR BLOJATH ÀND WAXATH THA SELVA FRUCHTA (FRÜCHDA) ÀND NOCHTA AS AN THA ÁST.SIDE

[167/20] VNDER THA FRUCHTA (FRÜCHDA) FON MIN LAND

[189/15] JRTHA WARTH BIHWÍLA ÁK AL.FÉDSTRE HÉTEN. THRVCHDAM HJU ALLE FRÜCHD (FRÜCHDA) ÀND NOCHTA BÉRTH

[189/19] NE SKOLDE HJU NÉNE FRÜCHD NER NOCHT NAVT NE BÉRA BÍDAM WRALDA HJA NÉNE KREFTA NE JÉF

[207/05] THACH THAT NETH NÉNE GODE FRÜCHDA BÁRED.

FRÜ

[093/22] ALLERA MÀNNELIK JEF TO AN MERY FRU (FRÜ) ÀND BLÍDE ÀND NINMAN NÉDE DIGER THAN TO ÁKANE SINA NOCHT

[094/25] HO KIRT SKIL FRÜ HIR BYDJA

[126/15] THA STJURAR HÉTON HJRA WIVA TRÁST. ÀND FRO JEFTA FROW THAT IS FRÜ ÁK FRO.LIK. THÀT IS ÉLIK AN FRÜ.

[133/32] KONE.RÉD ALSA HÉT MIN FORMA [...] THJU ÔTHERE FRU.LIK (FRÜ.LIK). ÀND THA JONGESTE NOCHT

[139/11] IN SIN KÉNINGKRIK [...] HWÉR FRÜ IS ÀND NOCHTA SEND