Nether-Saxon

alternative Nether Saxon · alternative rare Nethersaxon

1. Synonym of Low German.

   Synonyms: Low German

comparative more Nether-Saxon · superlative most Nether-Saxon · alternative Nether Saxon · alternative rare Nethersaxon

1. Of or relating to the Low German tongue, people or culture.

   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 [...]

   1825, Edgar Taylor, Sarah Austin, Lays of the minnesingers or German troubadours, page 106