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Texel
Texel , island (1994 pop. 13,022), 71 sq mi (184 sq km), North Holland prov., NW Netherlands, in the North Sea, the largest and southernmost of the West Frisian Islands. It is a popular summer resort, and sheep are raised on its grazing land. The island is also a breeding ground for sea birds. ... Read more
Utrecht
Utrecht city (1994 pop. 234,106), capital of Utrecht prov., central Netherlands, on a branch of the Lower Rhine (Neder Rijn) River. It is a transportation, financial, and industrial center. Manufactures include machinery, cement, and food products. It is also the site of a major trade fair. Ut... Read more
The Indo-European Family of Languages
The Indo-European Family of Languages The Indo-European Family of Languages Subfamily Group Subgroup Languages and Principal Dialects  Asterisk indicates a dead language. Anatolian     Hie... Read more
German language
German language member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). It is the official language of Germany and Austria and is one of the official languages of Switzerland. Altogether nearly 100 million people speak German ... Read more
Netherlands
Netherlands , Du. Nederland or Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, officially Kingdom of the Netherlands, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 16,407,000), 15,963 sq mi (41,344 sq km), NW Europe. It is bounded by the North Sea on the north and west, by Belgium on the south, and by Germany on the east... Read more
English language
English language member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. It is the mother tongue of about 60 millio... Read more
Germanic languages
Germanic languages subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, spoken by about 470 million people in many parts of the world, but chiefly in Europe and the Western Hemisphere. All the modern Germanic languages are closely related; moreover, they become progressively closer grammatically and... Read more
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein , state (1994 pop. 2,595,000), c.6,050 sq mi (15,670 sq km), NW Germany. Kiel (the capital and chief port), Lübeck, Flensburg, and Neumünster are the major cities. Flanked on the west by the North Sea and on the east by the Baltic Sea, Schleswig-Holstein occupies the sou... Read more
Germany
Germany , Ger. Deutschland, officially Federal Republic of Germany, republic (2005 est. pop. 82,431,000), 137,699 sq mi (356,733 sq km). Located in the center of Europe, it borders the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France on the west; Switzerland and Austria on the south; the Czech Republi... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Frisian"

FRISIAN
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language FRISIAN. A GERMANIC LANGUAGE spoken in coastal...have supposed the existence of an ANGLO-FRISIAN language during the migratory period before...consonant in English cheese , church , chaff , Frisian tsiis , tsjerke , tsjef (Compare DUTCH...
Frisian language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Frisian language member of the West Germanic group of the...more than 300,000 people, most of whom speak West Frisian and live in Friesland, a province of the Netherlands. North Frisian is spoken along the North Sea coast of Germany and...
Frisian Islands
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Frisian Islands , chain of low-lying islands...and Denmark, in the North Sea. The West Frisian Islands, belonging to the Netherlands...Terschelling, and Ameland. The East Frisian Islands, belonging to Germany, are east...
Frisians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...the Netherlands (with some pockets of Frisian speakers living in Germany as well...forest area in the southeast. Demography. Frisian speakers today number approximately 730...North America. Linguistic Affiliation. Frisian is a member of the North Sea Branch of...
Dutch
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...and Belgium to the south. The West Frisian Islands — Texel, Vlieland...x2014; are situated north of the Frisian coast. The climate is maritime: wet...related to Afrikaans, German, Yiddish, Frisian, English, and Luxembourgeois. It is...
Germany
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography ...of inshore sand dunes became the East Frisian Islands when the shoreline sank during...Wangerooge, the easternmost of the main East Frisian Islands. The islands are strung along...roughly parallel to the coast. The North Frisian Islands are located in the North Sea near...
Manfred, Frederick (Frederick Feikema)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...Iowa‐born author of Frisian ancestry who also called himself Feike...the Year (1947), portraying a willful Frisian farmer; The Chokecherry Tree (1948...sculptor; Green Earth (1977), about a Frisian family of tenant farmers in Iowa at the...
DUTCH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...Netherlands, Belgium, and north-western France. With English and FRISIAN , Dutch belongs to the Low German branch of the West Germanic...IN THE UNITED STATES , EUROPEAN LANGUAGES, EUROPEAN UNION , FRISIAN , GERMANIC LANGUAGES , HISTORY OF ENGLISH , NORSE , OLD ENGLISH...
Netherlands
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Walcheren, North Beveland, and South Beveland. The West Frisian Islands are located off the northern coast of the Netherlands...official language, is complete except in Friesland, where Frisian is spoken in places. After the Netherlands obtained independence...
Leeuwarden
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Leeuwarden , Frisian Ljouwert, city (1994 est. pop. 87,500), capital of Friesland prov., N Netherlands...structures date from the 16th and 17th cent., notably the huge brick Oldehove Tower. The large Frisian Museum is there.

Dictionary entries related to "Frisian"

Frisia
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Frisia an ancient region of NW Europe, consisting of the Frisian Islands and parts of the mainland corresponding to the modern...the regions of Ostfriesland and Nordfriesland in NW Germany. Frisian is the Germanic language most closely related to English and...
Metius, Jacob
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...west Netherlands in Eratosthenes batavus (1617). Adriaen was a popular and efficient teacher who stressed the training of Frisian surveyors. His lectures were well attended by an international audience including, in 1629, Descartes. In 1625 Adriaen...
Trent, battle on the
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...story about Imma, a Northumbrian noble captured by the Mercians. It shows that it was normal for captured nobles to be killed, and that lesser captives were sold to a Frisian slave merchant, who took them, chained, to London for export.
frieze
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology frieze1 coarse woollen cloth with a nap. XV. — F. frise — medL. *( lāna ) frīsia Frisian wool.
Pytheas of Massalia
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...to be of little use. He certainly investigated the source of tin in south Britain and probably that of amber in the North Frisian Islands. His explorations were probably extended by inquiry and hearsay, and it is doubtful that he reached the Baltic Sea...
less
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...than ) used to emphasize a surprisingly large amount. ORIGIN: Old English lǣssa , of Germanic origin; related to Old Frisian lēssa , from an Indo-European root shared by Greek loisthos ‘last.’
Germanic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...of, relating to, or denoting the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes English, German, Dutch, Frisian, the Scandinavian languages, and Gothic. ∎  of, relating to, or denoting the peoples of ancient northern...
Saxons
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Under pressure from the migrating FRANKS they spread from their homelands on the Danish peninsula into Italy and the Frisian lands and engaged in piracy on the North Sea and English Channel between the 3rd and 5th centuries. They appear to have entered...

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Deutsche Bank and Frisian Flag pioneer web trade solution.
Magazine article from: Trade Finance; 6/1/2008; 700+ words ; PT Frisian Flag Indonesia is the first company in...enabled trade payable financing solution. Frisian Flag Indonesia, a subsidiary of Royal...of its business in this growth market, Frisian Flag Indonesia needed a solution that would...
A Bibliographical Guide to Old Frisian Studies.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/1993; ; 558 words ; ...Jr, A Bibliographical Guide to Old Frisian Studies, North-Western European Language...complete guide to all major studies of Old Frisian, West, North and East, which have appeared...covers general introductions to 'Old Frisian', 'Grammars', 'Methodological approaches...
Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2005; 526 words ; 9004145311 Old Frisian etymological dictionary. Boutkan, Dirk...Boutkan realized over a decade ago that Old Frisian had somehow fallen out of the core curriculum...chosen because it is the most archaic Old Frisian manuscript. Words are defined, forms...
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW APPEALS COMMISSION RULES IN FAVOR OF OHIO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FRISIAN HIJMA DAIRY IN PERMIT APPEAL CASE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/20/2006; 700+ words ; ...Install and Permit to Operate for the Frisian Hijma Dairy, a 825head dairy farm located...sound science." The department issued Frisian Hijma Dairy a Permit to Install and Permit...that all requirements for issuance of the Frisian Hijma Dairy permits had been met. Specifically...
It Guozzeroer. (Frisian).
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...remnant of World War II, a BMW with a sidecar at the bottom of a Frisian canal. Repeated visits with Bavius Bouma bring out the rest...the publication of this last book. The loss is a sad one for Frisian literature and for the readers who loved him. Still, he will...
Independent Traveller - Open Jaw: Where is Frisian spoken? WHERE READERS ANSWER BACK
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/19/2001; ; 292 words ; The answer is given as Germany. While you may find a Frisian- speaking German if you try really hard, the answer is...A better answer would have been the Netherlands, where Frisian is still a living and officially recognised language in...
Fish goes Frisian with new pilsner.(Fish Brewing Company introduces new beer)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Magazine article from: Modern Brewery Age; 4/22/2002; 700+ words ; The Fish Brewing Company of Olympia, WA, has announced the release of its latest Leavenworth Seasonal beer--Friesian Pilsener. "This Pilsener is medium bodied, brewed with a truly authentic Pilsener malt and a large percentage of Munich malt to create a beer with the classic German Pilsener
It wurk fan 'e duvel. (Frisian).(Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; Durk van der Ploeg It wurk fan 'e duvel Ljouwert, Netherlands. Friese Pers 2000. 360 pages. 39.50 fl ISBN 90-330-111-23 READING A DURK van der Ploeg novel is nearly always a special kind of adventure: the reader becomes wholly caught up in a kind of time warp that features a landscape and an array
OTHER GERMANIC LANGUAGES.(Danish, Dutch, Frisian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish)(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; Danish Klaus Rifbjerg. Andre tider. Copenhagen. Gyldendal. 1997. 154 pages. ISBN 87-00-30646-0. Andre tider is a 151-page collection containing twenty-three short stories, some of which are only a few pages long. Each story consists of a brief description of a situation, an episode, a stage of
Samle Fersen.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...leading figure in the vitalization of Frisian literature in the 1920s and 1930s...visionary founder and leader of the Young Frisian Movement (1915-26), Kalma sought to implement his dream of raising Frisian literature to a world-class level...