nether-saxon
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Synonym of Low German.
adj
Of or relating to the Low German tongue, people or culture.
Example Sentences
- "Some of the same songs are, it is said, to be found in the Thuringian dialect in a MS. collection at Jena. Kinderling, in his history of the Plattdeutsch, Nether-Saxon, or Low-German tongue [...]"
Etymology
From nether- + Saxon, influenced by or a calque of German niedersächsisch (as a noun Niedersächsisch) and similar terms in Dutch (Nedersaksisch) and Low German.
Inflected Forms
Nether Saxon (alternative)
Nethersaxon (alternative, rare)
more Nether-Saxon (comparative)
most Nether-Saxon (superlative)