Frankish

English

Etymology

From Frank +‎ -ish. Compare Middle English Frenkisch, Frenkis (“Frankish, French”), Old English Frencisc (“Frankish, French”). More at French.

Doublet of French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæŋkɪʃ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

Frankish (comparative more Frankish, superlative most Frankish)

1. 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 […]

   1. In or of the language of the Franks.
2. (puristic) French.

Synonyms

• Francic, Franconian, Gallic; see also Frankian, Francian

Translations

of or pertaining to the Franks

• Arabic: إِفْرَنْجِيّ (ʔifranjiyy)
• Armenian: ֆրանկական (hy) (frankakan)
• Breton: frank (br)
• Catalan: franc (ca)
• Danish: frankisk
• Dutch: Frankisch (nl)
• French: francique (fr), franconien (fr), franc (fr)
• Georgian: ფრანკული (pranḳuli)
• German: fränkisch (de)
• Hungarian: frank (hu)
• Italian: franco (it), francico (it)
• Marathi: फ्रँकिश (phrĕṅkiś)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frankisk (no)

  Nynorsk: frankisk

• Old Church Slavonic: франьчьскъ (franĭčĭskŭ), фрачьскъ (fračĭskŭ), фрѧжьскъ (fręžĭskŭ), фрѧѕьскъ (frędzĭskŭ)
• Polish: frankijski (pl)
• Portuguese: franco (pt), frâncico (pt)
• Russian: франкский (ru) (frankskij)
• Swedish: frankisk (sv)
• Welsh: Ffrancaidd

in or of the language of the Franks

• Georgian: ფრანკული (pranḳuli), ფრანკულად (pranḳulad)
• German: altfränkisch (de)
• Italian: francico (it)
• Marathi: फ्रँकिश (phrĕṅkiś)
• Swedish: frankisk (sv)

Proper noun

Frankish

1. The language of the Franks, an ancient West Germanic language, ancestral to Dutch.
2. (puristic) French.

Synonyms

• Old Frankish

Translations

the language of the Franks

• Armenian: ֆրանկերեն (frankeren)
• Catalan: fràncic m
• Danish: frankisk
• Dutch: Frankisch (nl); Oudfrankisch (nl)
• French: francique (fr); vieux-francique (fr)
• Georgian: ფრანკული ენა (pranḳuli ena)
• German: Fränkisch (de) n; Altfränkisch (de) n
• Italian: francone (it) m
• Marathi: फ्रँकिश (phrĕṅkiś)
• Occitan: francic m
• Portuguese: frâncico (pt) m
• Russian: франкский (ru) (frankskij)
• Spanish: fráncico m
• Swedish: frankiska (sv) c
• Welsh: Ffranceg f

See also

• Old Franconian
• Category:Frankish

Further reading

• ISO 639-3 code frk (SIL)

Anagrams

• shark fin, shark-fin, sharkfin