Old Frisiann.adj.
/ˌəʊl(d) ˈfrɪzɪən/, /ˌəʊl(d) ˈfrɪʒn/, /ˌəʊl(d) ˈfriːzɪən/, /ˌəʊl(d) ˈfriːʒn/, U.S. /ˌoʊl(d) ˈfrɪʒ(ə)n/, /ˌoʊl(d) ˈfriʒ(ə)n/ A. n.
The Frisian language in the period up to the mid 16th century. Cf. old adj. Compounds 7.
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1833 Philol. Museum 2 379 The tongues of the Old, the Middle and New High Dutch, the Old Saxon, the Middle and New Low-Dutch, the Middle and New Netherlandish, and the Old Frisian, lastly the languages of Scandinavia, the Old Norse, and its daughters Dansk and Swedish.
1894 O. F. Emerson Hist. Eng. Lang. i. 6 Other members of the Teutonic branch are Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old Low Franconian, and Old High German.
1948 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1947 14 This view..attached over much weight to literary Old Saxon, a language highly divergent from Old Frisian.
1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 205/2 ‘Old Frisian’ was regularly used administratively until about 1500; it was then supplanted for most purposed by Dutch and German.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the Frisian language in the period up to the mid 16th century.
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1925 Mod. Lang. Notes 40 460 Aldirmon is a well established Old Frisian word in the sense of ‘judge’.
1992 Notes & Queries Mar. 84/2 Willem Visser discusses Old Frisian cliticization.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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