NOUN
- a native or inhabitant of Friesland or Frisia
- a West Germanic language spoken in Friesland in the northwestern Netherlands; a near relative of English
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to the people or culture or language of Friesland or Frisia
How To Use Frisian In A Sentence
- The Angles, Saxons, Danes, Frisians and other invaders intermarried with the existing Romano-British Celts, Romans, Jutes, Gauls, Greeks and Lombards.
- The other characteristic feature, which Frisian has carried on a step farther than English, is the assibilation of velars before front vowels.
- But all Americans would be much better off if Indians felt unalienated, and proudly and unambivalently Indian and American, just as the Frisians feel proud to be both Frisian and Dutch.
- They went all the way: an enormous map indicating the equivalents of the Gaza strip and the West Bank (Zeelandic Flanders and Limburg, respectively), as well as the Frisian military bases, border checkpoints and settlements, Dutch tunnels to Belgium, the works. The Volokh Conspiracy » Let Turkey Have Gaza
- His annotations to an incunable edition of Old Frisian law reveal his interest in Anglo-Saxon canon law.
- Like their neighbors in the northern province of Groningen, Frisians tend to be seen as unsophisticated by Netherlanders living in the southern part of the country.
- They remain; and no admixture of the Frisian pirates, or the Breton, or the Angevin and Norman conquerors, has very much affected their cunning eyes. The Mowing of a Field
- The Angles, Saxons, Danes, Frisians and other invaders intermarried with the existing Romano-British Celts, Romans, Jutes, Gauls, Greeks and Lombards.
- The tribes we're following - the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes - lived on the coast of West Germany and Denmark and spoke various Frisian dialects.
- Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians who settled in England were still imbued with the traditional freedom of primitive German society.