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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The Frisian language until the late 1500s.

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

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

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  • In the group of West Germanic dialects, for the study of which Old High German, Anglo-Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old Saxon are our oldest and most valuable sources, we still have these four cases, but the phonetic form of the case syllables is already greatly reduced and in certain paradigms particular cases have coalesced.

    Chapter 7. Language as a Historical Product: Drift 1921

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