English Explanatory Dictionary

Low Prussian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A dialect of East Low German that developed in Prussia (West Prussia, Danzig and parts of East Prussia), influenced to some extent by Dutch as well as Baltic and Slavic languages, after 1945 spoken among the expellee community in Germany, now all but extinct, except in the form of its daughter dialect of Plautdietsch.

Word forms

Low Prussian

Etymology

Calque of German Niederpreußisch.

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