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Most probably the name is derived from the verb fresare in Vulgar Latin, meaning 'milling, cutting, grooving, crushing, removing shells'; this name may have been given to the Frisii because they 'cut the land': digging ditches and dykes to irrigate the wet marshlands where they lived. [11] Compare fresar el paisaje in the Romance language Spanish.
Anglo-Saxon runes or Anglo-Frisian runes are runes that were used by the Anglo-Saxons and Medieval Frisians (collectively called Anglo-Frisians) as an alphabet in their native writing system, recording both Old English and Old Frisian (Old English: rūna, ᚱᚢᚾᚪ, "rune").
The westfrisian surnames are well documented, i did a research on allefriezen.nl / a website for historical research and i found among the west-frisians many more genuine frisian surnames. The surnames in the article are only mentioning the west-frisian kind of way how frisian surnames were given (most by the name of the father).
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The first element of the goddess's name, Badu-, may be cognate to Proto-Germanic *badwa-meaning "battle." The second portion of the name * -henna appears as * -henae in the names of matrons , Germanic goddesses widely attested from the 1st to 5th century CE on votive stones and votive altars.
Personal names on Amrum are still greatly influenced by Frisian elements to this day. Notably, hypocorisms and names with two elements are common. Early borrowings were made from the Danish language and the Christianisation of the North Frisians around 1000 A.D. brought a modest influence of Christian and biblical names.