old low franconian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.63 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The West Germanic language that is the ancestor of modern Dutch and its varieties.
name
The above, including also the ancestors of the languages of the eastern Netherlands (Limburgish) and the Low Franconian varieties spoken in Germany. (In this view, the ancestor of Dutch is considered to be Old West Low Franconian)
Example Sentences
- "The particular variety of Old Low Franconian spoken in the cultural centers of Flanders and Brabant is called Old West Low Franconian and is the ancestor ultimately of Dutch."
Synonyms
Old Low Frankish
Old Dutch