frisia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.68 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
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.
name
Fryslân, a province of the Netherlands. Also referred to as Friesland (using the Dutch vernacular endonym) and West Frisia.
Example Sentences
- "Devoting himself to labour among the heathen, [Winfrid] crossed to Frisia, in 716; […]"
- "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."
- "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 […]."
- "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 […]"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Frisia