Crossword clues for frisian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frisian \Fri"sian\, a. Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province of the Netherlands; Friesic.
Frisian \Fri"sian\, n. A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See Friesic, n.
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 meant "curly-headed" (compare Old Frisian frisle "curly hair"). The native form of the people name is Old English Frysan/Fresan (plural). Cognate with Old Frisian Frise, Middle Dutch Vriese, Old High German Friaso). As a noun from c.1600, "West Germanic language spoken in Friesland." It is closely related to Dutch and Old English.
Wikipedia
Frisian usually refers to:
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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
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Frisian languages, a group of West Germanic languages, including:
- West Frisian language, spoken in Friesland, Netherlands
- Saterland Frisian language, spoken in Lower Saxony, Germany
- North Frisian language, spoken in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- Middle Frisian, spoken in Frisia from the 16th to 19th Century
- Old Frisian, spoken in Frisia from the 8th to 16th Century
Frisian or Friesian may also refer to:
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.