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German
Etymology
alt (“old”) + sächsisch (“Saxon”)
Pronunciation
Adjective
altsächsisch (strong nominative masculine singular altsächsischer, comparative altsächsischer, superlative am altsächsischsten)
- (relational) Old Saxon (related to the Old Saxon language)
- Synonyms: altsächs., asächs., as.
- Robert Peters, Überlegungen zu einer Karte des mittelniederdeutschen Sprachraums; in: 1985, Niederdeutsches Wort: Beiträge zur niederdeutschen Philologie. Band 24. 1984, edited by Jan Goossens, p. 51ff., here p. 55:
- Als Grenze schon des Altniederdeutschen gegenüber dem Altniederländischen gilt die Westgrenze des altsächsischen Einheitsplurals der Verben im Präsens Indikativ auf -t, die sog. Rhein-Ijssel-Linie.
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