Plattdeutschn.

Brit.

/ˈplatdɔɪtʃ/, U.S.

/ˈplætˌdɔɪtʃ/

Forms: 1600s Plat-Deutsch, 1800s Platt-Teutsch, 1800s– Platt-Deutsch, 1800s– Plattdeutsch.

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Plattdeutsch.

Etymology: < German Plattdeutsch, use as noun of plattdeutsch (adjective) Low German (16th cent.), either < platt flat, low, plain, common (late 16th cent. as plat ; < either Middle Low German plat flat, low, plain or Middle Dutch plat flat, low, weak, plain (late 13th cent.: see plat adj.)) + deutsch German (see Dutch adj.), after an unattested corresponding Middle Low German or Middle Dutch compound (compare German regional (Low German) plattdüütsch ‘Low German’ and Middle Dutch in goede platten duytsche in good plain Dutch (1524 in the foreword of a Dutch translation of the New Testament)), or immediately < such a compound in Middle Low German or Middle Dutch.

The collective term for those dialects of Germany which are not High German; Low German. See German adj. 1.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > German > Low German

Dutchc1380

Low Dutch1567

Plattdeutsch1677

Low German1736

Platt1814

1677 E. Browne Acct. Trav. Germany 144 I had now left the pure German language behind me, for at Magdeburg comes another kind of German, called Plat-Deutsch, Broad Dutch, Nidersachsitche, or the Language of Lower Saxony.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria x. 205 I mean the language as it is at present written; that which is called the High German, as contra-distinguished from the Platt-Teutsch, the dialect of the flat or northern countries, and from the Ober-Teutsch.

1886 H. A. Strong & K. Meyer Outl. Hist. German Lang. 67 New-Low-German, or Plattdeutsch, so called from being spoken in the platte land or the low country.

1908 T. G. Tucker Introd. Nat. Hist. Lang. 220 The Saxonic dialects, under the name of Nieder-Deutsch or Platt-Deutsch are still in regular use among the populace of North Germany.

1953 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1952 135 The Plattdeutsch forms require discussion.

1977 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1975 187 At first sight North Frisian seems to have more in common with the Plattdeutsch spoken in Schleswig than with other forms of Frisian.

2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 10 Aug. i. 4/3 Mr. Niebuhr speaks German with a faint trace of Plattdeutsch, the guttural dialect that the Mennonites have preserved ever since they were hounded out of the Low Countries in the 16th century.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	plattdeutsch
释义	Plattdeutschn. Brit. /ˈplatdɔɪtʃ/, U.S. /ˈplætˌdɔɪtʃ/ Forms: 1600s Plat-Deutsch, 1800s Platt-Teutsch, 1800s– Platt-Deutsch, 1800s– Plattdeutsch. Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Plattdeutsch. Etymology: < German Plattdeutsch, use as noun of plattdeutsch (adjective) Low German (16th cent.), either < platt flat, low, plain, common (late 16th cent. as plat ; < either Middle Low German plat flat, low, plain or Middle Dutch plat flat, low, weak, plain (late 13th cent.: see plat adj.)) + deutsch German (see Dutch adj.), after an unattested corresponding Middle Low German or Middle Dutch compound (compare German regional (Low German) plattdüütsch ‘Low German’ and Middle Dutch in goede platten duytsche in good plain Dutch (1524 in the foreword of a Dutch translation of the New Testament)), or immediately < such a compound in Middle Low German or Middle Dutch. The collective term for those dialects of Germany which are not High German; Low German. See German adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > German > Low German Dutchc1380 Low Dutch1567 Plattdeutsch1677 Low German1736 Platt1814 1677 E. Browne Acct. Trav. Germany 144 I had now left the pure German language behind me, for at Magdeburg comes another kind of German, called Plat-Deutsch, Broad Dutch, Nidersachsitche, or the Language of Lower Saxony. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria x. 205 I mean the language as it is at present written; that which is called the High German, as contra-distinguished from the Platt-Teutsch, the dialect of the flat or northern countries, and from the Ober-Teutsch. 1886 H. A. Strong & K. Meyer Outl. Hist. German Lang. 67 New-Low-German, or Plattdeutsch, so called from being spoken in the platte land or the low country. 1908 T. G. Tucker Introd. Nat. Hist. Lang. 220 The Saxonic dialects, under the name of Nieder-Deutsch or Platt-Deutsch are still in regular use among the populace of North Germany. 1953 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1952 135 The Plattdeutsch forms require discussion. 1977 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1975 187 At first sight North Frisian seems to have more in common with the Plattdeutsch spoken in Schleswig than with other forms of Frisian. 2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 10 Aug. i. 4/3 Mr. Niebuhr speaks German with a faint trace of Plattdeutsch, the guttural dialect that the Mennonites have preserved ever since they were hounded out of the Low Countries in the 16th century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1677
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