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Old Frisian
noun
- the Frisian language before c1500. : OFris, OFris.
Old Frisian
noun
- the Frisian language up to about 1400 OFris
Word History and Origins
Origin of Old Frisian1
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.
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.
His grammars of Old Frisian, Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon were unapproached in his own time, and are still admirable.
Such is really the case with the Old Frisian.
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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