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frisian
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Frisian usually refers to: Frisians , the medieval and modern ethnic group inhabiting Frisia, a region on the western coasts of Germany and the Netherlands Frisii , the ancient inhabitants of Frisia prior to 600 AD Frisian languages , a group of West Germanic ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frisian \Fri"sian\, a. Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province of the Netherlands; Friesic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "of or pertaining to the people of Frisia," the lowland coast of the North Sea and nearby islands (Old English Frysland , Freslond ; adjective Freisisc ), named for the Germanic tribe whose name was Latinized as Frisii ," which perhaps originally ...
Usage examples of frisian.
Scandinavian wares attracted foreigners from many lands: Frisians, Anglo-Saxons, Germans, Balts, Greeks, and Orientals.
In a moment I remembered that page in the North Sea Pilot where the Ems-Jade Canal is referred to as deep enough to carry gun-boats, and as used for that strategic purpose between Wilhelmshaven and Emden, along the base, that is, of the Frisian peninsula.
The third of the Hannover combat wings - consisting of the 94th, 100th and 385th Bomb Groups - had had difficulty in assembling and these groups had separately bombed Wilhelmshaven, Bremer-haven and a convoy off the Frisian Islands but none of their bombing caused serious damage to the Germans.
English-Welsh-Norman-Breton-Angevin host marched toward Edinburgh, ships were landing parties of crusaders along the east coastdescendants of Vikings from the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway, Goths from Sweden, Frisians and Flemings, Burgundians, French, Leonese, Portuguese, Granadans, fighting men representing most of the small states that made up the Holy Roman Empire, a few Switzers, some Italians of various kinds, Castilians, Navarrese, Moors, and even a few scarred, black-skinned noble knights of the Kingdom of Ghana.
Vikings from the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway, Goths from Sweden, Frisians and Flemings, Burgundians, French, Leonese, Portuguese, Granadans, fighting men representing most of the small states that made up the Holy Roman Empire, a few Switzers, some Italians of various kinds, Castilians, Navarrese, Moors, and even a few scarred, black-skinned noble knights of the Kingdom of Ghana.
The TOC's instrumentation ran off a portable fusion power plant adapted from the drive unit of a Frisian armored vehicle.
Because the local government had hired the Frisians at a monthly flat rate, cost cutting had a direct, one-to-one effect on President Hammer's profit margin.
Cognate to western German Wotan, English Woden, Frisian Wons, et cetera.