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- German · calque ofRheinischer Fächer
- English todayRhenish fan
Calque of German Rheinischer Fächer. So called because all or most of the isoglosses collapse in Hesse and fan out to the west.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rhenish fan
Today it means: A set of isoglosses in West Central German showing how the effect of the High German consonant shift gradually decreases towards the north-west (i.e. towards Low Franconian and Low Saxon) Full definition →
German Rheinischer Fächer