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Frankish
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English
Etymology
From Frank + -ish. Compare Middle English Frenkisch, Frenkis (“Frankish, French”), Old English Frencisc (“Frankish, French”). More at French.
Pronunciation
Adjective
Frankish (comparative more Frankish, superlative most Frankish)
- Of or pertaining to the Franks.
- 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xii:
- The Frankish monk Smaragdus, who wrote at the beginning of the 9th century […]
- In or of the language of the Franks.
Synonyms
- Francic, Franconian, Gallic; see also Frankian, Francian
Translations
of or pertaining to the Franks
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Proper noun
Frankish
- The language of the Franks, an ancient West Germanic language, ancestral to Dutch.
Synonyms
Translations
the language of the Franks
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See also
- Old Franconian
- Category:Frankish
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