geskjo

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian [Term?], from Proto-West Germanic *gaskehan. Cognates include German geschehen and Dutch geschieden.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣəˈskjoː/
  • Hyphenation: ge‧skjo
  • Rhymes: -oː

Verb

geskjo

  1. (intransitive) to happen
    • 2000, Marron C. Fort, transl., Dät Näie Tästamänt un do Psoolme in ju aasterlauwerfräiske Uurtoal fon dät Seelterlound, Fräislound, Butjoarlound, Aastfräislound un do Groninger Umelounde [The New Testament and the Psalms in the East Frisian language, native to Saterland, Friesland, Butjadingen, East Frisia and the Ommelanden of Groningen], →ISBN, Dät Evangelium ätter Matthäus 1:22:
      Dut aal is geskäin, dät dät uutkume skuul, wät die Here truch dän Profeet kweden häd;
      This all has happened, so that it would come true, what the Lord through the profet has said.

Conjugation

Conjugation of geskjo (irregular, impersonal, defective)
grúundfoarme geskjo
infinitive tou geskjoon
present past
singular hie/ju/dät geskjugt geskaag
plural jo geskjo geskegen
present past
participle geskjoond geskäin
auxiliary verb weze

References

  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “geskjo”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN