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ˌAnglo-ˈFrisian, n. and a.
Also 9 Anglo-Friesic.
[f. Anglo- + Frisian a. and n.]
A. adj.
1. Pertaining to both English and Frisian.
2. In the use of H. Sweet and some later writers: pertaining to a subdivision of the West Germanic branch of the Germanic group of languages, the hypothetical parent language of Anglo-Saxon and Old Frisian.
B. n. In senses of the adj.
1836Halbertsma in J. Bosworth Orig. Eng., Gmc. & Scand. Lang. 75 Low-Saxon has all the appearance of German grafted on an Anglo-Friesic tree. The words are Anglo-Friesic with German vowels, as if the Friesians, in adopting the German, retained the consonants of the old language. 1877H. Sweet in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1875–6 562 The language spoken by these tribes before the migration may be called Anglo-Frisian, and its characteristics may be ascertained with considerable certainty from a comparison of the oldest English and Frisian. 1888― Hist. Eng. Sounds 85 Within Low German English and Frisian again form a special group ‘Anglo-Frisian’. 1907H. M. Chadwick Orig. Eng. Nation 99 But have we any justification for believing that a language of Anglo-Frisian type was spoken beyond the sea to the north? 1913P. Sipma Phonol. & Gram. Mod. W. Frisian 2 From time immemorial English and Frisian have had in common a certain number of peculiarities in their system of vowels and consonants: these must have been proper to the original Anglo-Frisian language. 1948Trans. Philol. Soc. 1947 14 This view [in T.P.S. 1939]..attached over much weight to literary Old Saxon, a language highly divergent from Old Frisian, and assumed that we must postulate a stage in which there was an Anglo-Frisian unity rather closer than the loose unity of Frisian, English, and Saxon, i.e. non-High German West Germanic. 1958A. S. C. Ross Etymology ii. 98 In Anglo-Frisian, initial and medial k before a front vowel > [ts] [tš]. |