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In his Low Saxon ( Low German, Plattdüütsch ) lyric and epic poems, which reflect the influence of Johann Peter Hebel, Groth gives poetic expression to the country life of his northern home ; and though his descriptions may not always reflect the peculiar characteristics of the peasantry of Holstein as faithfully as those of Fritz Reuter, yet Groth is a lyric poet of genuine inspiration.
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Low and Saxon
This is primarily because the Estonian language has borrowed nearly one third of its vocabulary from Germanic languages, mainly from Low Saxon ( Middle Low German ) during the period of German rule, and High German ( including standard German ).
The percentage of Low Saxon and High German loanwords can be estimated at 22 – 25 percent, with Low Saxon making up about 15 percent.
Hamburg (;, local pronunciation ; Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg ), officially Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second largest city in Germany, the fifteenth largest German state, and the sixth largest city in the European Union.
The English term has cognates in the other Germanic languages: Old Saxon heƀan " sky, heaven ", Middle Low German heven " sky ", Old Icelandic himinn " sky, heaven ", Gothic himins ; and those with a variant final-l: Old Frisian himel, himul " sky, heaven ", Old Saxon / Old High German himil, Dutch hemel, and modern German Himmel.
It concerns the correspondence of consonants in the older Indo-European, and Low Saxon and High German languages, and was first fully stated by Grimm in the second edition of the first part of his grammar.
German Klōß, diminutive Klößchen " clod ", Low Saxon klut, klute, Dutch kluit, perhaps related to Low German diminutive klütje " dumpling, clod ", Danish Jutland dial.
West Low German, also known as Low Saxon (, ), is a group of dialects spoken in the northwest of Germany and adjacent territories of The Netherlands and Denmark.
The language area comprises the North German states of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia ( the Westphalian part ), Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony-Anhalt ( the northwestern areas around Magdeburg ) as well as the northeast of The Netherlands ( i. e. Dutch Low Saxon, spoken in Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel and northern Gelderland ) and the Schleswigsch dialect spoken by the North Schleswig Germans in the southernmost part of Denmark.
** Northern Low Saxon
*** East Frisian Low Saxon in East Frisia
Low Saxon language area in the Netherlands
While Dutch is classified as a Low Franconian language, the Dutch Low Saxon varieties, which are also defined as Dutch dialects, form a dialect continuum with the Westphalian language.
simple: Low Saxon
Magdeburg (; Low Saxon: Meideborg, ), is the largest city and the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
John Bellenden Ker (? 1765 – 1842 ), for example, wrote four volumes arguing that English nursery rhymes were actually written in ' Low Saxon ', a hypothetical early form of Dutch.
Low German ( Nederdüütsch, Plattdüütsch ) is often identified with its Low Saxon dialect ( Nedersassisch, Low Saxon ) because it has a much stronger position than the other dialects.
Low and German
Until he was four years old, van Vogt and his family spoke only a dialect of Low German in the home.
Category: Low German surnames
Again an Expeditionary Force was sent to France, only to be hastily evacuated as the German forces swept through the Low Countries and across France in 1940.
Crokinole is called knipsbrat (" flick-board ") in the Low German spoken by Mennonites.
Some have theorized it emerged from the overwhelming influence of Low German in medieval times, having flattened the originally Nordic melodic accent, but stød is absent in most southern Danish dialects where Low German impact would have been the greatest.
In English, the terms poniard and dirk are loaned during the late 16th to early 17th century, the latter in the spelling dork, durk ( presumably via Low German, Dutch or Scandinavian dolk, dolch, ultimately from a West Slavic tulich ), the modern spelling dirk dating to 18th-century Scots.
* Middle Low German ( 14th – 16th century, during the heyday of the Hanseatic League ).
As the popular response to Luther gathered momentum, the social disorders, which Erasmus dreaded and Luther disassociated himself from, began to appear, including the German Peasants ' War, the Anabaptist disturbances in Germany and in the Low Countries, iconoclasm and the radicalization of peasants across Europe.
Estonian has been influenced by Swedish, German ( initially Middle Low German, later also standard German ), and Russian, though it is not related to them genetically.
The name Freyja is in fact a title meaning " lady ", from Proto-Germanic * frawjōn, cognate with West Frisian frou, Dutch vrouw, Low German Fro, Fru, German Frau.
Low and Plattdüütsch
Moin is semantically equivalent to the Low Saxon ( Plattdüütsch ) greeting Dagg and replaced it in many areas.
Some classify it as a dialect of Low German ( Plattdüütsch ) based on mutual intelligibility.
Low German or Low Saxon ( Plattdüütsch, Nedderdüütsch ; Standard German: Plattdeutsch or Niederdeutsch ; Dutch: Nedersaksisch in the wider sense.
Low German is called Plattdüütsch or Nedderdüütsch by its native speakers in Germany.
Low and lyric
* Bruce Haack's 1982 single " Party Machine " featured the lyric, " Low low low like Kurtis Blow / Down down down like James Brown.
This lyric was interpreted as a play on the title of Bowie's 1977 album Low, which charted his withdrawal following his drug abuse in America.
Low and epic
Trumper is a graduate student at the University of Iowa in comparative literature whose dissertation is to be a translation of an ancient, ' Old Low Norse ' epic called ' Akthelt and Gunnel '.
An epic satirical work, an adaptation of the traditional Dutch language / Low German fox epic to a setting in Luxembourg, it is known for its insightful analysis of the unique characteristics of the people of Luxembourg, using regional and sub regional dialects to depict the fox and his companions.
Low and poems
He sang the praises of the house of the Electors of Brandenburg in a collection of poems entitled Kurbrandenburgische Rose, Adler, Lowe und Scepter ( 1661 ), and also produced many occasional poems, several of which became popular ; the most famous of them is " Anke von Tharaw öss, de my geföllt " ( rendered from Low Saxon by Herder into modern German as " Ännchen von Tharau "), composed in 1637 in honor of the marriage of a friend.
Ars nova refers to a musical style which flourished in France and the Burgundian Low Countries in the Late Middle Ages: more particularly, in the period between the preparation of the Roman de Fauvel ( 1310 – 1314 ) and the death of the composer Guillaume de Machaut in 1377 ( whose poems were a large inspiration for Johannes Ciconia ).
* In Remembrance of Jackson Mac Low EOAGH ( Issue # 2 ) includes poems and remembrances on-line
Palmer published five of his own poems in the second number of Joglars, an issue that included work by Larry Eigner, Stan Brakhage, Russell Edson, and Jackson Mac Low.
Pedro Pietri wrote and publicly recited his best known poems, " Puerto Rican Obituary " and " Suicide Note of a Cockroach in a Low Income Project ", at Young Lord events.
Reuter's first publication was a collection of miscellaneous poems, written in Low German, entitled Läuschen un Riemels ( anecdotes and rhymes, 1853 ; a second collection followed in 1858 ).
* Low Life ( 1947 ) poems
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