Written by Dyami Millarson

These words may not only be comprehensible to English speakers, but may initially also appear to be merely an exotic kind of English. Hielepes as an “Anglo-Frisian language” is of course much more than similarities to English, but the similarities are nevertheless striking and betray historical kinship with English.

Tiₐcht (closed) – tight

Moeₑne – moon

Dei – day

Tiisde – Tuesday

Trèè – three

Mòòn – morn(ing)

Hòn – horn (BrE has no r here either)

Green – green

Tó (used with infinitives or as adverb) – to (used with infinitives), too (used as adverb)

Jitte (still) – yet

Den – then

Hewwe – have