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Middle Low Franconian

Middle Low Franconian noun: a language, successor to Old Low Franconian and ancestor to the modern Dutch language, spoken from about 1150 to about 1500.

Noun

Middle Low Franconian

  1. A language, successor to Old Low Franconian and ancestor to the modern Dutch language, spoken from about 1150 to about 1500.
    • Given the presence in Old and Middle Low Franconian of forms such as OLF vuss 'fox,', MLF zo 'so' or MLF vor 'for,' Benett finds it possible that …Anna Hebda, in: 2012, Juan M. Hernández-Campoy, J. Camilo Conde-Silvestre (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics, p. 242
    • F. Heidermanns reconstructs two adjectives, both based on the substantive ⁺aþal-: ⁺aþala- which in Old East Norse and Middle Low Franconian means 'rechtmäßig, ehelich' ('lawful, legitimate, born in wedlock') and in Middle Low Franconian and Old High German 'adlig' ('noble'); and a West Germanic -j-...2012, Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld, Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna (ed.), Germania Semitica (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 259), p. 78

Questions about Middle Low Franconian

What does Middle Low Franconian mean?
Middle Low Franconian means a language, successor to Old Low Franconian and ancestor to the modern Dutch language, spoken from about 1150 to about 1500.
What part of speech is Middle Low Franconian?
Middle Low Franconian is a noun.

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