In Aldfrysk foarbyld fan nomenynkorporaasje

Abstract

Until the present day, the phenomenon of noun incorporation has been demonstrated for Middle and Modern Frisian, but not yet for Old Frisian. We have now found a clear Old Frisian example in a text in the Fivelgo manuscript (ca. 1440). The attestation is the more compelling, since it contains all the characteristics of Type II in Mithun’s (1984) hierarchy.