The story
- Latin · derived fromFrīsiī“Frisians”
- Old French · derived fromfrison“a Frisian”
- Middle English · inherited fromFrisoun
- English todayFrisian
From Middle English Frisoun, taken from Old French frison (“a Frisian”), itself derived from Latin Frīsiī (“Frisians”). Displaced native Old English Frīsa (“a Frisian”) whence modern English Frise; see the plural Frīsan for more.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.