Old Low Franconian

English

Proper noun

Old Low Franconian

1. (strict sense) The West Germanic language that is the ancestor of modern Dutch and its varieties.
2. (broad sense) The above, including also the ancestors of the languages of the eastern Netherlands (Limburgish) and the Low Franconian varieties spoken in Germany. (In this view, the ancestor of Dutch is considered to be Old West Low Franconian)
   • 2010 (originally 2004), Benjamin W. Fortson IV, Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, series: Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics, 2nd ed., p. 371:

     The particular variety of Old Low Franconian spoken in the cultural centers of Flanders and Brabant is called Old West Low Franconian and is the ancestor ultimately of Dutch.

Synonyms

• Old Low Frankish

(ancestor of Dutch):

• Old Dutch

Meronyms

(ancestor of Dutch, Limburgish etc.):

• Old West Low Franconian
• Old East Low Franconian

Translations

language

• Dutch: Oudnederfrankisch (nl) n
• French: vieux bas francique m
• German: Altniederfränkisch n (as adjective: altniederfränkisch)