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Frisia en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Latin Frisia, from Frisii (“Frisians”). Mostly displaced native English Frise.

Meanings

  1. (historical) A coastal geographical region in Western Europe, along the southeastern corner of the North Sea in what today is mostly a large part of the Netherlands (including the present-day province of Frisia; see below) and smaller parts of northern Germany (including present-day East Frisia). It is the traditional homeland of the Frisians.
    • Devoting himself to labour among the heathen, [Winfrid] crossed to Frisia, in 716; […] 1878, Philip Smith, The History of the Christian Church During the First Ten Centuries, page 519:
  2. Fryslân, a province of the Netherlands. Also referred to as Friesland (using the Dutch vernacular endonym) and West Frisia.
    • The three areas populated by Frisians today are the Dutch province of Frisia (West-Frisia), the German landscape East-Frisia […], and the German district North-Frisia […]. 2005, Carl Skutsch, Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 470:
    • The population of the Province of Frisia, which is divided into eleven urban and thirty rural communes, is of a people of a distinct national character, who have never known feudalism and who attach a high importance to their independence and personal value, hard-working, and of a serious and grave character, with little sentiment for the past. 1913, Municipal Journal, Public Works Engineer and Contractors' Guide, Volume 22, page 1166:
    • Klein is celebrating the release of his new album Unity with an 18-stop, 35,000-ticket tour that doesn’t just loop in Frisia and Wallonia but also includes sold-out shows in London and LA […] 2025 March 11, Philip Oltermann, “‘If all I cared about was a career, I’d make listenable music’: Joost Klein on Eurovision, scandal and having the last laugh”, in The Guardian:

Deriveds

Frisian · North Frisia · West Frisia

Relateds

Friso-Saxon

Translations (30)

ja フリスラント (historical region) · la Magna Frisia (historical region) · frr Fraschlönj (historical region) · stq Fräislound (historical region) · cs Frísko (historical region) · el Φρισία (historical region) · ar فريزيا (historical region) · de Friesland (historical region) · ast Frisia (historical region) · ja フリジア (historical region) · lv Frīzija (historical region) · oc Frísia (historical region) · pt Frísia (historical region) · fi Friisinmaa (historical region) · br Frizia (historical region) · ko 프리지아 (historical region) · br Friz (historical region) · ca Frísia (historical region) · es Frisia (historical region) · it Frisia (historical region) · sc Frìsia (historical region) · nl Friesland (historical region) · la Frisia (historical region) · sco Frisie (historical region) · ko 프리슬란트 (historical region) · ga Freaslainn (historical region) · eo Frisio (historical region) · pl Fryzja (historical region) · fr Frise (historical region) · fy Fryslân (historical region)