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Middle Low German

Middle Low German proper noun: a language or collection of dialects that descended from Old Saxon and is the ancestor of modern Low German, spoken from about 1100 to 1600.

Proper noun

Middle Low German

  1. A language or collection of dialects that descended from Old Saxon and is the ancestor of modern Low German, spoken from about 1100 to 1600.
    • The written language is nowhere spoken by the people; it was formed at the period when Luther, rejecting the Middle High and the Middle Low German, adopted in preference the dialect of Misnia or Meissen, which had begun to be written much later.1837, The Encyclopædia of Geography
    Synonyms:
    Middle Saxon

Synonyms of Middle Low German

Forms of Middle Low German

alternative formMLG

Questions about Middle Low German

What does Middle Low German mean?
Middle Low German means a language or collection of dialects that descended from Old Saxon and is the ancestor of modern Low German, spoken from about 1100 to 1600.
What part of speech is Middle Low German?
Middle Low German is a proper noun.

Words near Middle Low German in the dictionary

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