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- German · calque ofKleverländisch
- Dutch · calque ofKleverlands
- English todayKleverlandish
Calque of Dutch Kleverlands, German Kleverländisch, from Kleverland, from the town of Kleve (“Cleves”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kleverlandish
Today it means: A dialect group of Low Franconian spoken in the eastern Netherlands (between Venlo and Nijmegen) and in western Germany (along the Rhine north of Duisburg). Full definition →
Dutch Kleverlands ← German Kleverländisch