Frankish

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

Doublet of French.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæŋkɪʃ/

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 […]

2. In or of the language of the Franks.

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

Frankish

1. The language of the Franks, an ancient West Germanic language, ancestral to Dutch.

• Old Frankish

• Old Franconian
• Category:Frankish

• ISO 639-3 code frk (SIL)

• shark fin, shark-fin, sharkfin