Where does “frum” come from?

Frum comes from Yiddish פֿרום, from Old High German fruma, from Proto-Germanic frumô.

frum (English): pious, observant; committed to obeying all the...

Definitions

  1. pious, observant; committed to obeying all the...

Ancestry of “frum”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Yiddishפֿרוםreligious; pious; observant, Orthodox, frum
2Middle High Germanvrumeefficient, good, righteous
3Old High Germanfrumabenefit
4Proto-Germanicfrumôfirst

Words derived from “frum”

Every word from Proto-Germanic frumô →Every word from Old High German fruma →Every word from Middle High German vrume →