Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

low rhenish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English

Syllables: low rhen-ish
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

in, of or relating to the dialects of the Lower Rhine region (Niederrheinisch)

Example Sentences

"1462. o'hnlängst, in modern prose unlängst or kürzlich, vor kurzem. The ohn- in this and other archaic compounds (e.g. ohngeachtet, 'not considering') has nothing to do with ohne, 'without,' M.H.G. âne, but stands for older on-, which is a Low Rhenish form instead of the usual un-."
"In his analysis of the Low Rhenish dialect Wahlenberg noticed that the final p in kip 'pannier' was not shifted to f, because there was another word kif 'quarrel' in that dialect (cf. [..])."
"The Cologne Bible of about 1478/1479 contained both the Old and New Testament and was published in wo versions, the first in a Low Saxon and the other in a Low Rhenish dialect."

Questions

What does low rhenish mean?: in, of or relating to the dialects of the Lower Rhine region (Niederrheinisch)

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