Old Frisian

American  

noun

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

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Old Frisian British  

noun

1.  OFris.  the Frisian language up to about 1400

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Etymology

Origin of Old Frisian

First recorded in 1830–35

Example Sentences

Old Frisian or Old French oddments, fubsy eloquences of Middle English and exotic intrusions from the Arabic.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

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.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

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.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Hence we have Mœso-Gothic hv�leiks; Old High German, hu�lih; Anglo-Saxon, huilic and hvilc; Old Frisian, hwelik; Danish, hvilk-en; German, welch; Scotch, whilk; English, which.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)