Middle Low Franconian

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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).

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