Saterland Frisian edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Verb edit

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 edit

References edit

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