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Low Rhenish

Low Rhenish adjective: in, of or relating to the dialects of the Lower Rhine region (Niederrheinisch).

Adjective

Low Rhenish

  1. in, of or relating to the dialects of the Lower Rhine region (Niederrheinisch)
    • 1462. o'hnlängst, in modern prose unlängst or kürzlich, vor kurzem. The ohn- in this and other archaic compounds (e.g. ohngeachtet, 'not considering') has nothing to do with ohne, 'without,' M.H.G. âne, but stands for older on-, which is a Low Rhenish form instead of the usual un-.1893, Maria Stuart. Ein Trauerspiel von Friedrich Schiller. Edited (with Introduction, English Notes, Genealogical Tables, etc.) by Karl Breul. Edited for the Syndics of the University Press...
    • In his analysis of the Low Rhenish dialect Wahlenberg noticed that the final p in kip 'pannier' was not shifted to f, because there was another word kif 'quarrel' in that dialect (cf. [..]).Wiesław Awedyk, Traditional historical linguistics and historical sociolinguistics, in: 1999, Ernst Håkon Jahr (ed.), Language Change: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics (series: Trends in...

Questions about Low Rhenish

What does Low Rhenish mean?
Low Rhenish means in, of or relating to the dialects of the Lower Rhine region (Niederrheinisch).
What part of speech is Low Rhenish?
Low Rhenish is an adjective.

Words near Low Rhenish in the dictionary

  1. low profile
  2. low profiles
  3. Low Prussian
  4. low relief
  5. low reliefs
  6. Low Rhenish
  7. low rider
  8. low riders
  9. low rise
  10. low rises
  11. low road

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