The name Freyja is in fact a title meaning " lady ", from Proto-Germanic * frawjōn, cognate with West Frisian frou, Dutch vrouw, Low German Fro, Fru, German Frau.

** West Frisian language, spoken in Friesland, Netherlands

* West Frisian ( disambiguation )

English is thus more closely related to West Frisian than to any other modern language, although less than a quarter of the vocabulary of Modern English is shared with West Frisian or other West Germanic languages because of extensive borrowings from Norse, Norman, Latin, and other languages.

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 ").

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 ).

It is a West Germanic language closely related to Old Frisian.

* October 9 – ( a famous treasure wreck ) is sunk in the West Frisian Islands.

However, all modern Germanic languages save English and Scots retain the more general sense: for example, German Tier, Alemannic Diere or Tiere, Pennsylvania Dutch Gedier, Dutch dier, Afrikaans dier, Limburgish diere, Norwegian dyr, Swedish djur, Danish dyr, Icelandic dýr, Faroese dýr, West Frisian dier, and North Frisian diarten, all of which mean " animal.

Historian and archivist Wopke Eekhoff summed up a total of over 200 different spelling variants, of which Leeuwarden ( Dutch ), Liwwadden ( Stadsfries ) and Ljouwert ( West Frisian ) are still in use.

There are cognates in most Germanic languages, such as the Swedish, Faroese and Nynorsk ; West Frisian and Middle Low German ; Middle Dutch ; Dutch ; Middle Low German ; Middle High German (""); German, and perhaps Old English.

The Elfstedentocht ( West Frisian: Âlvestêdetocht, English: Eleven cities tour ), at almost, is a speed skating match ( with 200 contestants ) and a leisure skating tour ( with 16, 000 skaters ).

There are often points along the route where the ice is too thin to allow mass skating ; they are called " kluning points " ( from West Frisian klúnje ), and the skaters walk on their skates to the next stretch of good ice.

| English: night, West Frisian, Dutch, German: nacht, Gothic: nahts, Icelandic: nótt ( pronounced )

Since this * z changed to * r in the Scandinavian languages and in West Germanic ( German, Dutch, English, Frisian ), Verner's Law resulted in alternation of * s and * r in some inflectional paradigms, known as grammatischer Wechsel.

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

Compared to other Germanic languages, it is probably most similar to that of modern West Frisian, one of English's closest relatives.

In West Frisian there are also two words for Saturday.

M. L. West has suggested how Hesiod filled out the complement of Titans from the core group — adding three figures from the archaic tradition of Delphi, Koios, Phoibe, whose name Apollo assumed with the oracle, and Themis.

Instead it is probably left over from an archaic sense of the English word " Dutch "; compare German Deutsch (' German '), Dutch Duits (' German '), Diets (' Dutch '), which once referred to any people speaking a non-peripheral continental West Germanic language on the European mainland.

* Sangaree ( drink ) is a similar drink associated with the West Indies and the name sangaree is an archaic English name for sangria itself.

Its importance stems from its association with the indigenous cultures that inhabited these islands prior to the influences of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity or the West, making Kulintang the most developed tradition of Southeast Asian archaic gong-chime ensembles.

Jalap is a cathartic drug, its use largely archaic in the West, consisting of the tuberous roots of Ipomoea purga, a convolvulaceous plant growing on the eastern declivities of the Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico at an elevation of 5000 to 8000 ft. above sea level, more especially about the neighbourhood of Chiconquiaco on the eastern slope of the Cofre de Perote in the state of Veracruz.

* 1960 – The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.

ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.

Dutch West India Company (; ) was a chartered company ( known as the " WIC ") of Dutch merchants.

After the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, it became apparent that the Dutch West India Company was no longer capable of defending its own colonies, as Sint Eustatius, Berbice, Essequibo, Demerara, and some forts on the Dutch Gold Coast were rapidly taken by them.

In 1791, the company's stock was bought by the Dutch government, and on 1 January 1792, all territories previously held by the Dutch West India Company reverted to the rule of the States-General of the Dutch Republic.

* Charter of the Dutch West India Company Text of the Charter of the Dutch West India Company: 1621

West India Company, Dutch

West India Company, Dutch

In English, the terms poniard and dirk are loaned during the late 16th to early 17th century, the latter in the spelling dork, durk ( presumably via Low German, Dutch or Scandinavian dolk, dolch, ultimately from a West Slavic tulich ), the modern spelling dirk dating to 18th-century Scots.

In 1658 the Dutch West Indies Company seized French territory to establish the Dutch colony of Cayenne.

West Flemish (, ) is a dialect group of Dutch spoken in parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

West Flemish is spoken by around 1. 05 million people in West Flanders ( in Belgium ), 90, 000 in the neighbouring Dutch coastal district of Zeelandic Flanders, and approximately 20, 000 in the northern part of the French département of Nord where it is classified, as a recognized dialect of Dutch, as one of the languages of France.

The dialects of the rest of the Dutch province of Zeeland, Zeelandic, are sometimes also included in West Flemish although this classification is controversial.

* Euromosaic report on West Flemish ( thus Dutch ) in France

West Low German, also known as Low Saxon (, ), is a group of dialects spoken in the northwest of Germany and adjacent territories of The Netherlands and Denmark.

* West Low German

The term " Merovingian " comes from medieval Latin Merovingi or Merohingi (" sons of Merovech "), an alteration of an unattested Old West Low Franconian form, akin to their dynasty's Old English name Merewīowing, with the final-ing being a typical patronymic suffix.

Lowry was born in Low Moor, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, in a Cornish family.

After the death of Lothair, the Low Countries were coveted by the rulers of both West Francia and East Francia.

The Wadden Sea (,, Low German: Wattensee or Waddenzee,, West Frisian: Waadsee ) is an intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea.

Dialects with strong Frisian substrates, including Low German and Low Franconian, are also spoken in West Frisia.

Many Frisians speak Low Saxon dialects, especially in East Frisia, but also in West and North Frisia.

A 800 m long track climbs Mount Coolum from the east, starting at a carpark on Tanah Street West off David Low Way in the suburb of Mount Coolum.

It is one of the municipalities of Friesland, where the spoken language is not West Frisian ; instead, Stellingwerfs, a dialect of Dutch Low Saxon, is spoken here.

It is one of the municipalities of Friesland, where the spoken language is not West Frisian ; instead, Stellingwerfs, a dialect of Dutch Low Saxon, is spoken here.

There are two waterfalls and dams on the river within the village limits, known as the Great and Little Falls ; and two auto bridges, the Walden Veterans ' Memorial Bridge ( known colloquially as the High Bridge, which carries NY 52, known in the village as West Main Street ) and Low ( Oak Street ) bridges ).

# REDIRECT West Low German

Low Franconian, Low Frankish, or Istvaeonic, is a group of several West Germanic languages spoken in the Netherlands, northern Belgium ( Flanders ), in the northern department of France, in western Germany ( Lower Rhine ), as well as in Suriname, South Africa and Namibia that originally descended from Old Frankish.

Old Low Franconian is sometimes divided in two groups, Old Dutch ( also Old West Low Franconian ) and Old East Low Franconian.