Middle Low Franconian

English

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.
   • Anna Hebda, in: 2012, Juan M. Hernández-Campoy, J. Camilo Conde-Silvestre (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics, p. 242:

     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 [...]

   • 2012, Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld, Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna (ed.), Germania Semitica (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 259), p. 78:

     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- derivate ⁺aþalja- 'von edler Herkunft, vornehm, herrlich' ('of noble descent, of distinction, magnificent').

   • 2019, Gertjan Postma, A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today 248), p. 142:

     This nominalizer -end is a typical feature of Low Saxon, but it already existed in Middle Low Franconian, cf. the text of Van den levende ons Heeren 'Of the life of our Lord' (AD 1300).

Translations

Translations

• Dutch: Middelnederfrankisch n (as adjective: Middelnederfrankisch)
• German: Mittelniederfränkisch n (as adjective: mittelniederfränkisch)