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Definition of Old frisian
1. Noun. The Frisian language until the 16th century; the Germanic language of ancient Frisia.
Definition of Old frisian
1. Proper noun. Language akin to English spoken on the North Sea coast of modern Netherlands and Germany before 1650. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Frisian
Literary usage of Old frisian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"old frisian типа, moon, ... hill, but old frisian. Old High German ben/. It seems
probable, on the whole, that the Anglo-Saxons once occupied the land ..."
2. The English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1855)
"The extent to which the old frisian of the laws resembles the Anglo-Saxon, and,
as a consequence thereof, the English, has been enlarged upon by both ..."
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1907)
"It is remarkable that the old frisian forms (which do not, of course, correspond
to the Old English, but to the Middle English stage of the development of ..."
4. Outlines of the History of the English Language by Thomas Northcote Toller (1900)
"... are widely spread, and would seem to have been early adopted by the Teutons :
eg Latin strata gives Old English strait, Old Saxon strata, old frisian ..."
5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1864)
"The philologists of the last century derived it directly from the old Frisian,
which they regarded as holding the same relation to it that the Anglo-Saxon ..."
6. Historical Outlines of English Accidence, Comprising Chapters on the History by Richard Morris (1899)
"The chief features common to old frisian and Old English are:— (1) Teutonic ...
It is a peculiarity of old Frisian, Old English, and Old Saxon to drop m and ..."
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