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.

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.

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.

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.

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 is called Plattdüütsch or Nedderdüütsch by its native speakers in Germany.

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.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

( c ) Ligeantia localis, by operation of law, when a friendly alien enters the country, because so long as they are in the country they are within the Sovereign's protection, therefore they owe the Sovereign a local obedience or allegiance ( R v Cowle ( 1759 ) 2 Burr 834 ; Low v Routledge ( 1865 ) 1 Ch App 42 ; Re Johnson, Roberts v Attorney-General 1 Ch 821 ; Tingley v Muller 2 Ch 144 ; Rodriguez v Speyer AC 59 ; Johnstone v Pedlar 2 AC 262 ; R v Tucker ( 1694 ) Show Parl Cas 186 ; R v Keyn ( 1876 ) 2 Ex D 63 ; Re Stepney Election Petn, Isaacson v Durant ( 1886 ) 17 QBD 54 );

An alien, coming into a colony also became, temporarily a subject of the Crown, and acquired rights both within and beyond the colony, and these latter rights could not be affected by the laws of that colony ( Routledge v Low ( 1868 ) LR 3 HL 100 ; 37 LJ Ch 454 ; 18 LT 874 ; 16 WR 1081, HL ; Reid v Maxwell ( 1886 ) 2 TLR 790 ; Falcon v Famous Players Film Co 2 KB 474 ).

* Low brass is a copper-zinc alloy containing 20 % zinc with a light golden color and excellent ductility ; it is used for flexible metal hoses and metal bellows.

Low periods of the Nile during the 11th century continued to add to the landscape of Cairo ; a new island, known as Geziret al-Fil, first appeared in 1174, but eventually became connected to the mainland.

: Low coral atolls in north ; volcanic, hilly islands in south

Low numbers ( below 31 and especially below 12 ) are popular because people play birthdays as their so-called lucky numbers ; hence a win in which these numbers are over-represented is more likely to result in a shared payout.

He had no amorous feelings toward Mary and sought the marriage for its political and strategic gains ; Philip's aide Ruy Gómez de Silva wrote to a correspondent in Brussels, " the marriage was concluded for no fleshly consideration, but in order to remedy the disorders of this kingdom and to preserve the Low Countries.

His family lived briefly in Savannah, GA in a carriage house owned by Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA ; he wrote a poem about Mrs. Low's House.

* Several pre-1950 talkies were sold to other studios for remakes, among them Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1931 ) and Make Me a Star ( 1932 ) to MGM ; The Letter ( 1929 ), A Farewell to Arms ( 1932 ) and One Sunday Afternoon ( 1933 ) to Warner Brothers ; and " The Dance of Life ( 1929 ), The Story of Temple Drake ( 1933 ) and " Swing High, Swing Low ( 1937 ) to 20th Century Fox.

The word is continued in German Deutsch ( meaning German ), English " Dutch ", Dutch Duits and Diets ( the latter referring to the historic name for Dutch or Middle Dutch, the former meaning German ), Italian tedesco ( meaning German ), Swedish / Danish / Norwegian tysk ( meaning German ) and Middle Low German dudesch meaning both Low German and the whole of Dutch / German / Low German, as well its descendant, modern Low German dütsch, meaning only Standard High German.

David Low ( cartoonist ) | David Low's cartoon, published in the Evening Standard on 20 September 1939, shows Hitler greeting Stalin, following their joint Invasion of Poland ( 1939 ) | invasion of Poland, with the words, " The scum of the earth, I believe ?".

Yacht (, from Dutch / Low German jacht meaning hunting or hunt, compare Standard German / High German Jagd ) was originally defined as a light, fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries.

Mecklenburg however is within the historical Low German language area, and the " c " appeared in its name during the period of transition to Standard, i. e. High German usage ( Low German authors wrote the name Meklenborg or Męklenborg, depicting proper Low German pronunciation, which itself was a syncope of Middle Low German Mekelenborg ).

Beside Standard German, Low Saxon dialects ( Schleswigsch ) are spoken, as well as Danish ( Sydslesvigsk or Sydslesvigdansk ) and its South Jutlandic variant, furthermore North Frisian in the west.

* Mexico: 40, 000 Mennonite Low German-speakers ; 22 % of mennonites also speaks Standard German, 30 % speaks Spanish, 5 % speaks English and 5 % speaks Russian as second language.

( 2. 0 % of the Bolivian population are Standard German-speakers, plus 70 000 Mennonite Low German-speakers < nowiki > s < nowiki ></ nowiki >) 2. 7 % of Bolivian population are German-descendants.

* Paraguay: 166, 000 Standard German-speakers ( including 18, 000 Mennonites, who don't speak Plattdeutsch or Mennonite Low German ); plus 20, 000 Mennonite Low German, spoken by Mennonites who live in Chaco and Eastern Paraguay The Mennonites emigrated to Paraguay from Chihuahua State ( in Mexico ), the Soviet Union, Canada, and Bolivia.

It is classified as the original East Low German dialect of the Brandenburg margraviate, but it has been much influenced by the East Central German dialects and by Standard German.

* In Pakistan -- ' Standard ( Saaf ) Urdu ' is the " High " variety, whereas ' Hindi-Urdu ' is the " Low " variety used by the masses ( called Urdu, written in Nastaliq and increasingly in Roman alphabet ).

The cartoonist David Low first drew Colonel Blimp for Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard in the 1930s: pompous, irascible, jingoistic and stereotypically British.

In this time, people in Northern Germany, who mainly spoke Low Saxon dialects very different from Standard German, learned it as a foreign language.

However, later the Northern pronunciation ( of Standard German ) was considered standard and spread southward ; in some regions ( such as around Hanover ) the local dialect has completely died out with the exception of small communities of Low German speakers.

Up to the middle of the 20th century many locals still spoke Low Rhenish, though today almost all people use Standard High German in daily conversation, even amongst family.

In Osterland Low German is more popular than Fering and especially in Wyk the traditional language is Standard German.

In the United States, there are three standard service volumes ( SSV ): Terminal, Low, and High ( Standard Service Volumes do not apply to published Instrument Flight Rules ( IFR ) routes ).

Examples where the High / Low dichotomy is justified in terms of social prestige include Italian dialects as ( L ) and Standard Italian as ( H ) in Italy and German dialects and standard German in Germany.