English Explanatory Dictionary

East Central German

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. One of two major subgroups of the Central German dialects; spoken primarily in the German states of Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, and Berlin, and until 1945 in large parts of what is now western and southern Poland; distinguished from West Central German by the shift of pre-Old High German initial *p- to pf- (now usually f-).
adj
  1. of or pertaining to the East Central German dialects

Word forms

East Central German

Etymology

Calque of German Ostmitteldeutsch.

Related words

Wiktionary’s coverage of East Central German terms West Central German Thuringian Lusatian
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