| 单词 | Low German |
| 例句 | He wrote in Latin, whose word for snowflake is “nix,” which in Kepler’s Low German also meant “nothing.” Snowmaking is the most dangerous part of skiing 2013-02-23T13:00:00Z While he’s busy attending roundtable discussions of Middle Low German medical literature, I’ll be exploring the city’s cooler side. You’re going where? Kalamazoo is tired of your Creedence Clearwater jokes 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z They live humble, reclusive lives, without cars or electricity, and speak Plautdietsch, or Mennonite Low German. Cirera wins portrait prize 2012-11-05T20:00:00Z Mom has prepared a small lunch — faspa, as is said in Low German. "Dear Father" letters and DNA tests 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z "Geek" arrived in English from Low German, in which a geck denoted a crazy person; in travelling circuses, the geek show traditionally involved a performer biting off the heads of live chickens. The 10 best words the internet has given English 2013-04-17T09:19:32Z She learned Low German by listening to his parents, his 11 siblings, and their spouses and children converse at Sunday faspas at my grandparents' farm. "Dear Father" letters and DNA tests 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Still speaking Plautdietsch - a blend of Low German, Prussian dialects and Dutch - a few thousand moved to the forests of Campeche in the 1980s. God's will or ecological disaster? Mexico takes aim at Mennonite deforestation 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z The Mennonites' native language is typically Plautdietsch, a unique blend of Low German, Prussian dialects and Dutch. In Mexico, a decade of images shows Mennonites' traditions frozen in time 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z She speaks softly in her native Low German - a dialect hundreds of years old. The rapes haunting a community that shuns 21st Century 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Their first language is Plautdietsch, or Low German, an archaic unwritten dialect that dates back to sixteenth-century Polish Prussia, where many of their ancestors settled after persecution drove them from home. How a Beloved Canadian Novelist Reckons with Her Mennonite Past 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Webster’s says it’s derived from the Low German trampen, to trample. Where did the word ‘hobo’ come from? Thon� took my hand in hers, and feeling I trembled, she said some quick words to Clara in a species of Low German, whose accent I could not understand, and Clara replied in the same. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z He has changed the Low German atmosphere of the tale to one suggested vaguely by Dutch, Scandinavian, and English names. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z They were nearly related both by speech and blood to the Saxons and Angles, and other Low German tribes, who lived to the east of the Ems and in Holstein and Schleswig. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z "Sonntag is right!" said a thin old man, in a plain burgher dress, and speaking in the Saxon Low German, still commonly used by the middle and lower classes in town and country. For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:45.883Z "Siegfried," "Beowulf," and "Lucifer," all typify the Anglo-Saxon spirit of revolt, that love of freedom and that strong individualism which has always been the distinguishing characteristic of the Low Germans. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z But this distinction is by no means consistently maintained throughout, and we seem to have a considerable mixture of High and Low German forms. Surnames as a Science 2011-09-26T02:00:27.097Z This process commenced in the north where it seems to have been already fully developed in Low German as early as the 8th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z The seaman who was talking so excitedly to Irma Lentz, and whom Ruth overheard on the deck of the Admiral Pekhard, used Low German instead of the High German taught in the educational institutions. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z He was terribly in earnest, and he spoke in his own Low German. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z The dormant energies of the Low Germans were now kindled into a blaze of creative activity. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z One of the oldest Low German names on record is Hnaf, mentioned in the "Traveller's Song," written, as supposed, about the fifth century. Surnames as a Science 2011-09-26T02:00:27.097Z In fact, for the only genuine poetry of this epoch we have to look, not to the High German but to the Low German races. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z In its grammatical structure and general character, however, English is entirely Teutonic, and is classed with Dutch and Gothic among the Low German tongues. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z She wrote it originally in Low German, but of this original no copy is at present known to exist. Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg 2011-04-11T02:00:10.567Z It belongs, as might be anticipated from the northern origin of the Teutonic element in Britain, to the Low German division of the Teutonic branch of the Aryan family. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Flemish is a Low German dialect, the written form of which is identical with Dutch. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z Beyond this point the Low Germans have Slavs as their neighbours. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Quentell’s Bibles in High and Low German are in curious contrast to all this work. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z Afterwards a translation was made from Low German into High German by a priest, Henry von Nordlingen, assisted by a friend. Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg 2011-04-11T02:00:10.567Z In spite of its essentially Low German character, Eulenspiegel was extremely popular in other lands, and, at an early date, was translated into Dutch, French, English, Latin, Danish, Swedish, Bohemian and Polish. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z One was the custom of “private war” which disordered social life, and the other was the superabundant fighting energy of the Low Germans and Christianized Northmen and particularly of the Franks and Normans. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Attempts were also made in Low German districts, though at a later stage of this period, to unify the dialects and raise them to the level of an accepted literary language. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Many Frisians accompanied the Angles and Saxons to Britain, and Old English was in many respects more closely connected with Old Frisian than with any other Low German dialect. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z As regards the consonants, Dutch in the main does not differ from the other Low German languages. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z He spoke Low German, and I thought I knew his voice. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z He ruled over a multitude of subordinate lords speaking French- Latin, and High and Low German languages. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z The dialect which these colonists and knights introduced bore the Middle German character; and this, in various modifications, combined with Low German and even Dutch elements, formed the German spoken in these newly-won territories. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Now it is precisely here that we do find the most remarkable resemblances: in Iceland, the Faroes, Norway, Denmark, Jutland, Schleswig, and the Low German lands as far as the Scheldt. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn I do not know what we talked about, but I can still remember that the old dame, who spoke the purest Low German, sometimes made brief, droll remarks, which greatly amused all three of us. The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History And they would wish us to believe that, previous to the separation into High and Low German, there existed one complete Teutonic language, as yet neither High nor Low, but containing the germs of both. Lectures on The Science of Language England in the early ninth century was a Christianized Low German country under a king, Egbert, a protégé and pupil of Charlemagne. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Low German and its dialects are not separated from High German. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Mead was by this time full of Hamburg, and he kept breaking into songs in very low Low German, and memories of one Helen, not without sighs. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday He should know the Low German of the Black Forest, the Wiener dialect of the Austrian, and talk every gradation of French, from the frontiers of Flanders to the vine-groves of Provence and Auvergne. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas It was spoken in parts of East Friesland as late as the middle of the last century—but only in parts; the Low German, or Platt-Deutsch, being the current tongue of the districts around. The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies Literature in Low German has had from time immemorial its sharply defined character, which harmonizes with the North German landscape. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 At the present moment Holstein, Stormar, and Ditmarsh are Low German, or Platt-Deutsch, districts; the High German being taught in the schools much as English is taught in the Scotch Highlands. The Ethnology of the British Islands The influence of Low German first, and High German afterwards, has had the effect of drawing modern Danish constantly farther from this early type. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Low German does not necessarily mean a vulgar patois. Notes and Queries, Number 216, December 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc The tract thus identified extends far into the Cimbric Peninsula,—so that the Jutlander, though a Dane in tongue, is a Low German in appearance. The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies Unenthusiastic but substantial realism, speculative meditation, and a certain didactic tone make the Low German country the home of the fable and the great epic. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 On the other hand, in the Old High German, the Icelandic, and some of the Low German dialects, the word occurs as it does in English. The Ethnology of the British Islands Before she was three years of age, she was taught Low German, a language almost foreign to her own. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches According to the New English Dictionary the most probable derivation is from a Low German das daus, i.e. the "deuce" in dice, the lowest and therefore the most unlucky throw. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" The modern name for this stick is Distaff, a word which is derived from the Low German—diesse, the bunch of flax on a distaff, and staff. The Story of the Cotton Plant It is to be found in the Low German, the Friesic, and the Anglo-Saxon. Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc They are as different from the Low Germans on the one side as the Dutch are from the English; and they are as little like the Danes on the other. The Ethnology of the British Islands In Old High German we find the form anetrekho = a drake; in provincial New High German there is enterich and �ntrecht, from whence come the English and Low German form, drake. A Handbook of the English Language They were men of Teutonic race, speaking one of the languages, afterwards known as Low German, which were once spoken in the whole of North Germany. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII The Low German edition, printed by Rhau, seems to have paved the way in using the aforementioned pictures. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church The Gothic of the fourth century, preserved in the translation of the Bible by Ulfilas, is not, as has been so often said, the mother both of High and Low German. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities It is Low German, tinctured with Danish; having once been more Danish still, as is shewn by the geographical names ending in -by, -skov, and -gaard. The Ethnology of the British Islands Just about this time I read in Littell's Living Age a novel called "The Amber Witch," and some of Fritz Reuter's Low German stories; but these were all effaced by "The Quaker Soldier." Confessions of a Book-Lover A distant relative of this word is ogle, which is of Low German origin; cf. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) Of the charts of the Small Catechism only a Low German copy has as yet been discovered. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church I have never found the word kill for brook in Low Dutch or Low German writings. The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five Great quantities of his first baking were returned to him, with comments in both High German and Low German of a very uncomplimentary sort. A Romance Of Tompkins Square 1891 Chaucer we cannot read without some grammatical explanation or a glossary; correctly pronounced his language would sound to us more like Low German than like our English. Human Traits and their Social Significance On the other hand, commerce has introduced a great many words from the old Low German dialects of the North Sea and the Baltic. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) In the Low German editions since 1531 and 1534 it is found after the Lord's Supper as a sort of sixth chief part. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church The Teutonic group consists of three branches—High German, Low German, and Scandinavian. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 In the rural districts, broad Low German is spoken; but the language of the upper and educated classes is distinguished by its purity of style and pronunciation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" One thinks of other strange infatuations: the Polish Conrad's for England, the Scotch Mackay's for Germany, the Low German Brahms' for Italy. A Book of Prefaces According to treaty he had been given by the King of Ashanti to the Hollanders, and he had served them so long that he spoke only Low German and Malay. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative At Hamburg, Bugenhagen published the charts, which he had received till then, as a booklet, in Low German. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Low German is the German spoken in the lowlands of Germany. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 He came from Lindenau near Leipzig, and the rest of the crew teased him for his Low German. Atlantis The Low Germans, in the third century after Christ, occupied in the main the belt of flat country between the Baltic and the mouths of the Rhine. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain When the count died, his son and successor, William II., persisted, though with less energy, in his father's policy, and the Hainault connexion became the nucleus of a general Low German alliance. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) But the early forms, both in English and Low German, show that the words are originally unconnected. Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin The Low German spoken in the Netherlands is called Dutch; the Low German spoken in Friesland—a prosperous province of Holland—is called Frisian; and the Low German spoken in Great Britain is called English. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Their language, the old Norse, was distinguished from the Alemannic, or High German tongue, and from the Saxonic, or Low German tongue. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Modern investigations amongst pagan Anglo-Saxon barrows in Britain show the Low German race as pure barbarians, great at destruction, but incapable of constructive work. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain The Scandinavians and those whose vernacular is the Low German easily substitute English for their mother tongue. The Lutherans of New York Their Story and Their Problems The only thing to be regretted was that Bertha and Hertha had sobbed so violently that Jahnke's Low German verses had been virtually lost. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 The same changes—the same simplification of grammar, has taken place in nearly every Low German language. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 They were a tribe of people who came from the land of the Low Germans and settled in Britain in the fifth century. 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading The colonisation of South-Eastern Britain was but the first chapter in this long history of predatory excursions on the part of the Low German peoples. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Scandinavian is kindred to English, while Low German is the very group of which, philologically speaking, English is the most conspicuous member. The Lutherans of New York Their Story and Their Problems To England they were doubtless carried by the Low German invaders of the sixth century. The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 The proud distinction belongs to the Low German tribes that had created an England in Britain. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 Again, in Low German and in Anglo-Saxon, there is another name for yeast, having the form "barm," or "beorm;" and, in the Midland Counties, "barm" is the name by which yeast is still best known. Critiques and Addresses The language was and still is essentially Low German; and though it now contains numerous words of Latin or French origin, it does not and never did contain any but the very smallest Celtic element. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Of the agriculturists many are of Dutch descent, and about two millions still speak a Low German patois known as Pennsylvanian Dutch. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge It most nearly resembles the Frisic, a Low German dialect once spoken between the Rhine and the Elbe, and which is the parent of modern Dutch. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Skeat thinks that our word boy, borrowed from Low German and probably related to the Modern High German Bube, whence the familiar "bub" of American colloquial speech, is cognate with Latin pupus. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Comparison will, however, quickly show that it is not the source either of the English or of the Low German and Scandinavian ballad. Ballad Book The Low Germans were divided, like most other barbaric races, into several fluctuating and ill-marked tribes, whose names are loosely and perhaps interchangeably used by the few authorities which remain to us. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Platt-Deutsch or Low German, a dialect spoken by the peasantry in North Germany from the Rhine to Pomerania, and derived from Old Saxon. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge This narrative is interesting as showing the form the saga had taken by that date on Low German territory, and holds an important place in the history of the development of the saga. The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original Thus the cleavage between Protestantism and Catholicism has made two nations out of one Low German nationality in the Netherlands, as it threatens to do with one Celtic nationality in Ireland. The War and Democracy Germany has suddenly remembered that the Flemings are a Low German people and that they have been "oppressed" by the Walloons. What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it Roman coins are discovered in Low German tombs of the first five centuries in Sleswick, Holstein, Friesland, and the Isles; and Roman patterns are imitated in the iron weapons and utensils of the same period. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain At the outset, it is noteworthy that our English plant names can boast of a very extensive parentage, being, "derived from many languages—Latin, Greek, ancient British, Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Low German, Swedish, Danish, Arabic, Persian." The Folk-lore of Plants Again, in Low German and in Anglo-Saxon there is another name for yeast, having the form "barm," or "beorm"; and, in the Midland Counties, "barm" is the name by which yeast is still best known. Discourses Biological and Geological Essays From the ancient German came the High German and Low German; to the latter belong the Frisian, Saxon, and modern Low-German dialects. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 It must be remembered that the above incident took place in Liége among the Walloons, but it would seem that the Germans try to behave with decency when among their Low German brothers. What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it The Low German dialect which they brought with them from Sleswick and Hanover still remains in all essentials the identical speech employed by ourselves at the present day. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain It is found in the Swedish, Gothic, and Low German dialects, and in the Italian Goduta. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 But though the Low German tribes, including probably the Anglo-Saxons, have used peat as fuel from time immemorial, it appears not to have been known to the High Germans until a recent period. The Earth as Modified by Human Action Low German is curiously like English at times. The Days Before Yesterday So much seems certain, that when the Flemings are freed from the embittering influence of the Walloons and French, then this Low German tribe will again learn to love everything German—because they are German. What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it It has been too usual, also, to neglect the considerable Danish, Norwegian, and Norman element, which, though belonging to the same Low German and Scandinavian stock, yet differs in some important particulars from the Anglo-Saxon. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Or, in Low German:— "Wasser, if ever the devil you see, Bite his leg for him, or he will bite me." Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 He evidently comes from the Low German version. The Nibelungenlied There appear to have been two different sources, one a Low German account, quite simple and brief, the other a tradition of the Lower Rhine. The Nibelungenlied The two Low German poems which probably form the basis of our epic may have been united about 1150. The Nibelungenlied He, too, comes from the Low German tradition. The Nibelungenlied |
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