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Nether-Saxon
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English
Alternative forms
en Nether Saxon
en Nethersaxon rare
Etymology
From en nether- Saxon, influenced by or a calque of de niedersächsisch (as a noun Niedersächsisch) and similar terms in nl - (nl Nedersaksisch) and nds -.
Proper noun
nether-Saxon
en Low German.
Adjective
nether-Saxon
Of or relating to the Low German tongue, people or culture.
en 1825 Edgar Taylor; Sarah Austin Lays of the minnesingers or German troubadours 106 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 [...] Note: This refers to the German work „Geschichte der Nieder-Sächsischen oder sogenanten Plattdeutschen Sprache vornehmlich bis auf Luthers Zeiten, nebst einer Musterung der vornehmsten Denkmahle dieser Mundart, entworfen von M. Joh. Fried. August Kinderling“ (Magdeburg, 1800), page 262.
Anagrams
en aeehnnorstx oxanthrenes