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Middle Low Saxon

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

Noun

Middle Low Saxon

  1. A language or collection of dialects that descended from Old Saxon and is the ancestor of modern Low Saxon, spoken from about 1100 to 1600.
    • Furthermore, there was another cultural movement which also changed the map: that of Middle Low Saxon (the language of the Hanseatic League) which brought zik-forms into north-eastern Dutch dialects in Twente and Groningen during the period of the Hanseatic League, the 13th and 15th centuries...1989, P. Sture Ureland, Some contact structures in Scandinavian, Dutch, and Raeto-Romansh: inner-linguistic and/or contact causes of language change, in: Leiv Egil Breivik, Ernst Håkon Jahr (eds.)...
    • Their linguistic profile [= the linguistic profile of the later sources of Old Frisian] corresponds rather to that found in contemporaneous languages from the surrounding areas, namely, Middle Dutch, Middle Low Saxon, or Middle English, which attest a more advanced stage of phonological...2018, Elżbieta Adamczyk, Reshaping of the Nominal Inflection in Early Northern West Germanic, page 252

Questions about Middle Low Saxon

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

Words near Middle Low Saxon in the dictionary

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  8. middle man
  9. middle management
  10. middle manager
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