How To Use Low german In A Sentence
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The extra minutes would also allow German broadcasters to jam in more commercials during televised matches.
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Generally, the later development of the West Germanic language can be divided in two distinct lines of descent: Upper German, spoken in Central and Southern Germany, and Low German, spoken in Northern Germany.
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The Lollards are said to have derived their name from a low German word _lollen_, to sing or chant, from their habit of chanting, but their clerical opponents affected to derive it from the Latin _lolium_, as if this sect were as tares among the true wheat of the church.
London and the Kingdom - Volume I
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His works fill six fairly substantial volumes, making him almost a minimalist compared with many of his fellow German philosophers.
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[Middle English, related to Middle Dutch craghe, Middle Low German krage 'neck, throat']
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Who would think we would meet someone who speaks Low German at a volleyball match in Hong Kong?
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He also suggested that Britain might allow Germany to share in the development of Persia.
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One of them, though, fires with more "force" bear with me here, this is strictly conceptual, and its dialect region overlaps with the other two; the overlapping regions being what are now Low German and the Rhenish Fan.
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The latter is a form of Low German and might be the main dialect group it belongs to.
Languagehat.com: WILAMOWICEAN.
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Although I am quite able to set this word out of my mind as I write this column, let me prattle awhile from the Low German pratten, “to pout,” and then “to prate, babble, talk idly”.
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This word comes from English dialect geek, geck: fool, freak; from Low German geck, from Middle Low German.
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I went through the small village, looking at the farmland, listening to the local patois, which was a curious mixture of French and Low German.
QUEEN’S RANSOM
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His initial Bach recordings with his Pforzheim musicians emerged in the late 1950s and, like his fellow German kapellmeisters, set no agenda but he set out a very definite stall.
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The growth of vernacular literatures, that is of literatures no longer generally expressed in Latin, but in the local speech (northern or southern French, or English, or High or Low German) was another disruptive factor.
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Etymology 1: From polle ( 'hair of the head'), (recorded in English since c. 1290), from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch pol ( 'head, top').
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At one point, MacRoberts volunteers his men to undertake a dangerous commando mission behind German lines in order to destroy an ammunition dump and so slow German progress.
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This word comes from English dialect geek, geck: fool, freak; from Low German geck, from Middle Low German.
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[Old English riopan; related to Norwegian ripa to scratch, Middle Low German repen to card, ripple (flax)]
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Hence the argument over whether Low German is a form of Dutch or of German....
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Rather different, however, is the idea called up by the corresponding Middle Low German _modersone_, which means
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However, the identity of this Middle Dutch or Middle Low German wagen - with wagen ` wagon 'is doubted by some, who refer it to Old Frisian wāch = Old English wāg ` wall.'
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The parents claimed their constitutional rights were violated because West did not allow the mother, who spoke Low German and no English, the right to obtain legal advice and because their permission was not given before police videotaped interviews of the children.
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The first is from Middle Low German māt(e), "comrade", apparently cognate with "meat", i.e. someone you ate with; the second (ultimately) from Persian šāh māta, "the king is dead".
Languagehat.com: ODI ET AMO.
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Using only native Norse words would be much too difficult, considering that even a basic verb like bliva derived from Low German.
Languagehat.com: HIGH ICELANDIC.
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With various degrees of emphasis, the many projects within the large umbrella of Folkspraak try to unite living Germanic languages -- from the big four of English, High German, Dutch, and Swedish/Norwegian/Danish to the grab bag of smaller Germanic languages such as Low German, Afrikaans, Yiddish, Frisian, Icelandic, and Nynorsk -- under a single common auxiliary language.
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