Ripuarian
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English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin Ripuarius (perhaps from Latin ripa (“river bank”)) + -an.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɹɪp.juˈɛə.ɹɪən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɹɪp.juˈɛɹ.i.ən/
Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
- Hyphenation: Ri‧pu‧a‧ri‧an, Ri‧pu‧ar‧i‧an
Proper noun
Ripuarian
- A West Central German dialect group, spoken in the northern Rhineland (including the cities of Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Aachen), as well as parts of German-speaking Belgium and south-eastern Limburg (Netherlands); linguistically, the least affected by the consonant shift of all High German dialects
Synonyms
Meronyms
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Translations
West Germanic dialect
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Noun
Ripuarian (plural Ripuarians)
- (historical) Any of the Ripuarian tribal section of the Frank people (comprising several tribes), who after some migration inhabited this region, as opposed to the Salian branch.
Synonyms
- (people): Ripuarian Frank
Translations
member of a section of the Frankish people
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Adjective
Ripuarian (comparative more Ripuarian, superlative most Ripuarian)
- Of or pertaining to the Ripuarian people or (one of) its members or descendants.
- Of or pertaining to one, all, or any of the Ripuarian dialects.
- 2002, Peter Nelde, Jeroen Darquennes, German in Belgium: Linguistic Variation from a Contact Linguistic Point of View. In: Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Roland Willemyns (eds.), Language Contact at the Romance-Germanic Language Border, p. 65ff., here p. 70:
- New Belgium shows a triglossic situation:
(1) New Belgium Eupen: Besides standard German (as the official language) also Low Franconian/East Limburgian dialects (in the western part) and Ripuarian dialects (in the eastern part) as well as standard French are spoken.
(2) New Belgium Malmédy: .
(3) New Belgium St Vith: Besides standard German (as the official language) also Ripuarian dialects (in the northern part) and Moselle Franconian dialects (in the central and southern part) as well as standard French are spoken.
- New Belgium shows a triglossic situation:
- 2002, Peter Nelde, Jeroen Darquennes, German in Belgium: Linguistic Variation from a Contact Linguistic Point of View. In: Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Roland Willemyns (eds.), Language Contact at the Romance-Germanic Language Border, p. 65ff., here p. 70:
- Of or pertaining to a Ripuarian speaker or speakers.
Related terms
Translations
pertaining to a/the tribal Ripuarian(s)
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pertaining to dialect
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pertaining to Ripuarian speaker(s)
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