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Netherlandish

Netherlandish proper noun: the Dutch language.

Proper noun

Netherlandish

  1. The Dutch language.
    • It has been said that Old English is Dutch, and to no other nation is the study of the Netherlandish more interesting than to the English.1897, Chamber's encyclopœdia
    • Low Dutch means both Low Frankish (or Netherlandish) and Low Saxon (or “Low German”).1991, Sarah Grey Thomason, Terrence Kaufman, Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, page 321

Adjective

Netherlandish (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the Netherlands.
    • Even more strikingly assumptive of a Low Countries context is Article 12's prescription that any guild brother who maimed another 'shall compownde with' and 'recompense and satisfy' the person whom he hurt. Composition or settlement of interpersonal wrongs by money compensation, rather than state...2023, Shannon McSheffrey, Ad Putter, “The Formation of the Hatmakers' Fraternity”, in The Dutch Hatmakers of Late Medieval and Tudor London: with an edition of their bilinguial Guild Ordinances...

Origin of Netherlandish

From Netherland + -ish. Compare Netherlandic, which is used mainly in linguistics.

Questions about Netherlandish

What does Netherlandish mean?
Netherlandish means the Dutch language.
What part of speech is Netherlandish?
Netherlandish can be a proper noun or an adjective.

Words near Netherlandish in the dictionary

  1. Netherland Dwarf rabbit
  2. Netherlander
  3. Netherlanders
  4. Netherlandian
  5. Netherlandic
  6. Netherlandish
  7. netherlandophone
  8. netherlandophones
  9. netherlands
  10. Netherlands Antilles
  11. Netherlands New Guinea

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