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- proper noun The
Frisian language spoken inEast Frisia , of whichSaterland Frisian is the last remaining variety. - proper noun The
Low German dialect spoken inEast Frisia . - adjective Pertaining to the East Frisians.
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Examples
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When, on a cold winter day, her little boy would go out without his warm mittens on, the East Frisian mother says, warningly: _De Fingerbiter is buten_, "the Finger-biter is outside."
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Fly tourists to the Frisian island Sylt and then follow the chain of small islands along the East Frisian coast.
Skycontrol 2009
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It seems that dæl - ` lower 'is from the Indo-European source of words like East Frisian del ` down,' English dale, Old Church Slavic dolŭ ` down, 'dolinŭ ` lower.'
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