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old frisian

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Old Frisiannoun

    the Frisian language until the 16th century; the Germanic language of ancient Frisia

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  1. Old Frisiannoun

    Language akin to English spoken on the North Sea coast of modern Netherlands and Germany before 1650.

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  1. old frisian

    Old Frisian is a West Germanic language spoken between the 8th and 16th centuries in the area known today as Friesland, a province in the northern part of the Netherlands. This language is the ancestor of the modern Frisian languages and is closely related to Old English and Old Saxon. Documentation of Old Frisian is somewhat limited, mainly consisting of legal texts and documents.

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  1. Old Frisian

    Old Frisian is a West Germanic language spoken between the 8th and 16th centuries in the area between the Rhine and Weser on the European North Sea coast. The Frisian settlers on the coast of South Jutland also spoke Old Frisian but no medieval texts of this area are known. The language of the earlier inhabitants of the region between the Zuiderzee and Ems River is attested in only a few personal names and place-names. Old Frisian evolved into Middle Frisian, spoken from the 16th to the 19th century. In the early Middle Ages, Frisia stretched from the area around Bruges, in what is now Belgium, to the Weser River, in northern Germany. At the time, the Frisian language was spoken along the entire southern North Sea coast. This region is referred to as Greater Frisia or Frisia Magna, and many of the areas within it still treasure their Frisian heritage. However by 1300, their territory had been pushed back to the Zuiderzee, and the Frisian language survives along the coast only as a substrate. The people from what are today northern Germany and Denmark who settled in England from about 400 onwards came from the same regions and spoke more or less the same language as the people who lived in Frisia. Hence, a close relationship exists between Old Frisian and Old English.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of old frisian in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of old frisian in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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