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fro

adv, prep — 2 senses

fro

adv

UK /fɹəʊ/ · US /fɹoʊ/

Etymology From Middle English fro, fra, from Old English fra (“from”), from Old Norse frá (“from”), from Proto-Germanic *fram (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“forth, forward”). Cognate with Scots frae (“fro, from”), Icelandic frá (“from”). More at from.

1

From; away; back or backward.

Archaic on its own

Derived terms
froward, to and fro

fro

prep

Etymology From Middle English fro, fra, from Old English fra (“from”), from Old Norse frá (“from”), from Proto-Germanic *fram (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“forth, forward”). Cognate with Scots frae (“fro, from”), Icelandic frá (“from”). More at from.

1

Obsolete From.

  • The preest that hawkys so, All grace is far hym fro.c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 15–16:

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