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This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. F. Frisian feminine given names (4 P) Frisian masculine given names (9 P)
Pages in category "Frisian masculine given names" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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).
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.
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De Vries is one of the most common Dutch surnames. [1] It indicates a geographical origin: "Vriesland" is an old spelling of the Dutch province of Friesland ().Hence, "de Vries" means "the Frisian".
[2] Several names of Frisian kings appear in 14th- and 15th-century chronicles from Holland and Hainaut. Among these names three stand out. The name Gondebald or Gondebuef is derived from the 12th-century Historia Caroli Magni. Here he is introduced as a Christian king, who fell at Roncevalles and was buried in a collective mound in Belin-Béliet.