The word " mete " also exists in Old Frisian ( and to a lesser extent, modern West Frisian ) to denote important food, differentiating it from " swiets " ( sweets ) and " dierfied " ( animal feed ).

Bugge proposed that the-toskr element is a reformation of the Old English word tūsc ( Old Frisian tusk ) and, in turn, that the element Rata-represents Old English ræt (" rat ").

According to recent research, the word dates from before the sail was taken into use by the Germanic peoples of North-Western Europe, because the Old Frisian spelling shows that the word was pronounced with a palatal k and thus in all probability existed in North-Western Germanic before that palatalization happened, i. e. in the 5th century or before ( in the western branch ).

The word itself, Old English bread, is common in various forms to many Germanic languages, such as Frisian brea, Dutch brood, German Brot, Swedish bröd, and Norwegian and Danish brød ; it has been claimed to be derived from the root of brew.

In the Westphalian dialects of Low Saxon, in East Frisian Low Saxon and in the Saterland Frisian language, Saturday is called Satertag, also akin to Dutch Zaterdag, which has the same linguistic roots as the English word Saturday.

The word derives from the Dutch, Frisian, and Low German word mo ( o ) i, meaning " beautiful " or " good ".

The name Drachten is possibly a derivative from the old Frisian word Darch, meaning peaty soil.

Tsjerk is the West Frisian word for Church.

The word " boy " comes from Middle English boi, boye (" boy, servant "), related to other Germanic words for boy, namely East Frisian boi (" boy, young man ") and West Frisian boai (" boy ").

The Old Norse, Old Frisian and Old English þing with the meaning " assembly " is identical in origin to the English word thing, German Ding, Dutch ding, and modern Scandinavian ting when meaning " object ".

A derivative of the Latin Princeps ( ironically, a Republican title in Roman law, which never formally recognized a monarchic style for the executive head of state but nominally maintained the Consuls as collegial Chief magistrates ) is used for a genealogical prince in some languages ( e. g., Dutch and Frisian, where a ruler is usually called vorst ( Frisian: foarst ), but a prince of the blood is always styled prins ( Frisian: prins ); and Icelandic where fursti is a ruler, and a blood prince is prins ( in these languages no capital letters are used in writing titles, unless, of course, they occur as the first word of a sentence )), while in other languages only a Princeps-derived word is used for both irrespectively ( e. g., English uses prince for both ).

The word has cognates in most other Germanic languages, like Old Norse and Old Frisian lik, Gothic leik, Dutch lijk, German leiche and Danish lig, ultimately being derived from Proto-Germanic * likow.

The same word is found in Old Frisian and Old Saxon.

The equivalent word is also to be found in Frisian, Dutch, Norwegian, and Icelandic.

( Other possible origins for the word include flit, E. Frisian flirt ( a flick or light stroke ) and E. Frisian flirtje ( a giddy girl )).

At Biikebrennen, nearly all North Frisian towns, and many isolated farmhouses as well, light their own bonfires, the biike, at or shortly after sunset.

It also exists in Frisian as " pine " which in turn is related to the English verb " to pine " which means to long for.

The German name " Ostfriesland " distinguishes the former county from " Ost-Friesland ", which means the whole eastern Frisian area.

Bûter, brea, en griene tsiis ; wa't dat net sizze kin, is gjin oprjochte Fries () means " Butter, rye bread and green cheese, who cannot say that is not a genuine Frisian " was used by the Frisian Pier Gerlofs Donia during a Frisian rebellion ( 1515 – 1523 ).

" means cum annexis, with annex ) or fully Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland (, West Frisian: Kollumerlân, Gronings: Kölmerlaand ) is a municipality in the northern Netherlands, in the province of Friesland.

Another likely root is the Frisian feer which means " barren " and has been attributed to the island's geest core.

means " Frisian horse ".

Equating " Hinba " with the Gaelic Inbhir, he notes that the adjacent mainland parish of Kilninver means " church of Inbhir " and suggests that the derivation of " Seil " maybe of Scandinavian origin with similarities to the East Frisian place name Zijl or Syl meaning a " seep or passage of water ".

Her first name, Famke, means " little girl " in West Frisian, the native language of the Dutch province Friesland.

Folcwald ( which means leader of folk or people ) is the father of Finn, a legendary Frisian king.

Terp means " village " in Old Frisian and is cognate with English thorp, Danish torp, German Dorf, modern West Frisian doarp and Dutch dorp.

But if the Frisian names Akkrum, Akkeringa and Dutch name Akkerghem, are derived from the personal name Akker there may be a corresponding Old English name from which Accrington may be derived.

In the Southern Jutland region of Denmark there may still be some Low German speakers in some German minority communities, but the Low German and North Frisian dialects of Denmark can be considered moribund at this time.

In Cumbria, a voiceless alveolar plosive ( the English t sound ) does occur, which may have some superficial similarities to realisations in Frisian and Low German, but the glottal and glottalised DAR variants found elsewhere in the DAR area and across Yorkshire present a very different realisation.

The Trekboers, as they were originally known, were mainly of Dutch origin and included Calvinists, such as Flemish and Frisian Calvinists, as well as French Huguenot and German and British protestants who first arrived in the Cape of Good Hope during the period of its administration ( 1652 – 1795 ) by the Dutch East India Company ( Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC ).

This meaning, of unknown origin, is common among West Germanic languages ( cf: Old Frisian kniucht, Dutch knecht, Danish knægt, Swedish knekt, Norwegian knekt, Middle High German kneht, all meaning " boy, youth, lad ", as well as German Knecht " servant, bondsman, vassal ").

Beside Standard German, Low Saxon dialects ( Schleswigsch ) are spoken, as well as Danish ( Sydslesvigsk or Sydslesvigdansk ) and its South Jutlandic variant, furthermore North Frisian in the west.

Groningen (; Gronings: Grunnen ; West Frisian: Grins ) is the main municipality as well as the capital city of the eponymous province in the Netherlands.

Sylt (; ; Söl ' ring North Frisian: Söl ' ) is an island in northern Germany, part of Nordfriesland district, Schleswig-Holstein, and well known for the distinctive shape of its shoreline.

The North Frisian Islands are part of the district and located inside the national park as well.

The d in Modern English thunder ( from earlier Old English þunor ) is epenthetic, and is now found as well in Modern Dutch donder ( cp Middle Dutch donre, and Old Norse þorr, Old Frisian þuner, Old High German donar descended from Proto-Germanic * þunraz ).

Strong black tea is served whenever there are visitors to an East Frisian home or other gathering, as well as with breakfast, mid-afternoon, and mid-evening.

VII ), there are further references to the Teutonic Spir-Boum, Spereboum, Sper-Boun and the Frisian Spiri, Spere, Sper, as well as the Latin sorbus.

It is considered a separate letter in the Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish alphabets, as well as in the North Frisian, Walloon, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Chamorro, Istro-Romanian, Lule Sami, Skolt Sami, Southern Sami, and Greenlandic alphabets.

In the German Länder Schleswig-Holstein ( for the Danish and Frisian minorities ) and Brandenburg ( for the Sorbian minority ) as well as in Poland ( for the German minority ), Romania ( 18 recognized minorities ) and Serbia, political parties representing recognized ethnic minorities enjoy an exemption from the election threshold.

Thus, it includes all the Germanic languages except Frisian and English, as well as the Northern Germanic Scandinavian languages like Norwegian and Danish.

In the Frisian municipality of Kollumerland, the western dialect called Westerkwartiers is also spoken, as well as a separate Groningen dialect called Kollumerpompsters.

By historical times ( c. 800-900 AD ), all of the West Germanic languages except Old Saxon had dropped the in these words, but not before it had triggered i-Mutation, as well as palatalization in Old English and Old Frisian.

At the end of the Proto-Germanic period, the language must have been divided into dialects, including Frankish, or Franconian, as well as the predecessors of Frisian and Saxon.