Rhenish fan
Meanings
name
- A set of isoglosses in West Central German showing how the effect of the High German consonant shift gradually decreases towards the north-west (i.e. towards Low Franconian and Low Saxon)
name
- Alternative letter-case form of Rhenish fan.
Word forms
Etymology
Calque of German Rheinischer Fächer. So called because all or most of the isoglosses collapse in Hesse and fan out to the west.
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