英和和英

語源

From nether- +‎ Saxon, influenced by or a calque of German niedersächsisch and similar terms in Dutch, Dutch Low Saxon and German Low German.

固有名詞

Nethersaxon

1. (まれに) Low German.
   • 1825, Edgar Taylor, Sarah Austin, Lays of the minnesingers or German troubadours:

     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, NetherSaxon, or Low-German tongue [...]

形容詞

Nethersaxon (comparative more Nethersaxon, superlative most Nethersaxon)

1. (まれに) Of or relating to the Low German tongue, people, or culture.
   • 1949, Johns Hopkins University, Modern language notes:

     Much of the conservative rationality of the Nethersaxon Duke, the Braunschweiger of the basin between the Elbe and Weser north of the Harz mountains, is reflected in this Fool, a fact which Mr. Knight might better substitute for his [...]

語源

From nether- +‎ Saxon, influenced by or a calque of German niedersächsisch (as a noun Niedersächsisch) and similar terms in Dutch (Nedersaksisch) and Low German.

固有名詞

Nether-Saxon

1. Synonym of Low German

形容詞

Nether-Saxon (comparative more Nether-Saxon, superlative most Nether-Saxon)

1. Of or relating to the Low German tongue, people or culture.
   • 1825, Edgar Taylor, Sarah Austin, Lays of the minnesingers or German troubadours, page 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.