Meanings
- artThe Dutch language.
Low Dutch means both Low Frankish (or Netherlandish) and Low Saxon (or “Low German”).
1991, Sarah Grey Thomason, Terrence Kaufman, Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, page 3211 more example
It has been said that Old English is Dutch, and to no other nation is the study of the Netherlandish more interesting than to the English.
1897, Chamber's encyclopœdia
- not comparableartOf or pertaining to the Netherlands.
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Even more strikingly assumptive of a Low Countries context is Article 12's prescription that any guild brother who maimed another 'shall compownde with' and 'recompense and satisfy' the person whom he hurt. Composition or settlement of interpersonal wrongs by money compensation, rather than state prosecution, was common in much of Europe, including in Netherlandish cities.
2023, Shannon McSheffrey, Ad Putter, “The Formation of the Hatmakers' Fraternity”, in The Dutch Hatmakers of Late Medieval and Tudor London: with an edition of their bilinguial Guild Ordinances, Boydell & Brewer, →JSTOR, page 48
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From Netherland + -ish. Compare Netherlandic, which is used mainly in linguistics.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Netherlandish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Netherlandish
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