Friendly Vill.
American: dialect of Billechoola, Salmon R.
Frisco Bay.
African: a Kru and Grebo dialect of the W.
Frisian (Friesisch).
Teutonic: the ancient dialect of Friesland, on the German Ocean, now partly submerged, or annexed by Holland and Prussia; it belongs to the Low-German branch, and is closely allied to Anglo-Saxon. It still survives as one of the local dialects of the Netherlands.
⁂ It is divided into three branches, viz.: 1, Batavian-Frisic, the most resembling Anglo-Saxon; 2, Westphalian-Frisic; 3, N. Frisic, the dialects of Heligoland, Schleswig, &c. See Richthofen: “Alt-F. Wörterbuch,” Göttingen, 1840: Rask: “Friesische Sprachlehre,” Freiburg, 1834. ☞
Fuca Strait.
American: dialect of the N.W. coast. See “Archæol. Am.,” vol. ii., p. 378.
⁂ Straits of S. Juan de Fuca, probably Oregones. W. S. W. V.