Old Frisian

noun

1. the Frisian language before c1500. OFris, OFris.

Old Frisian

noun

1. OFris. the Frisian language up to about 1400

Word History and Origins

Origin of Old Frisian¹

First recorded in 1830–35

Example Sentences

Many Frisians accompanied the Angles and Saxons to Britain, and Old English was in many respects more closely connected with Old Frisian than with any other Low German dialect.

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So they did when the laws of the Old Frisian republic were composed, and when the so-called Old Frisian was the language of the country.

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His grammars of Old Frisian, Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon were unapproached in his own time, and are still admirable.

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Such is really the case with the Old Frisian.

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The Frisian and Dutch.—It is a current statement that the Old Frisian bears the same relation to the Modern Dutch of Holland that the Anglo-Saxon does to the English.

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