The Influence of Low Dutch on the English Vocabulary

[Beorn]

The Influence of Low Dutch on the English Vocabulary

E.C. Llewellyn



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[Barreldriver]

^Interesting Wat. I always figured that to be expected though since English originated around Friesland did it not? and Friesland is part of the Lowland Netherlands isn't it? So in turn English would technically be a language with Low Dutch origins by that logic am I right?

[Albion]

^Interesting Wat. I always figured that to be expected though since English originated around Friesland did it not? and Friesland is part of the Lowland Netherlands isn't it? So in turn English would technically be a language with Low Dutch origins by that logic am I right?

The Germanic languages of the Netherlands come in the following forms I believe:

• There's Low Franconian which became *Dutch*
• Low Saxon Which became "Nedersaxon"
• Then there's the Anglo-Frisian group to which English and Frisian belong to

All were very close in Anglo-Saxon times and are still similar today but have diverged somewhat. Of course though English has changed a lot being isolated from the rest on an island, Nedersaxon is intelligable with Dutch and German I believe, Low Saxon is something of a go-between the two languages.

[Logan]

There were quite a few divergent populations, Germanic and Scandinavian, that we now remember as Old English. I would not doubt a Low Dutch influence, but would not wish to discount the others.