middle low franconian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.63 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A language, successor to Old Low Franconian and ancestor to the modern Dutch language, spoken from about 1150 to about 1500.
Example Sentences
- "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 …"
- "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')."
- "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)."