• Middle Dutch is a collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects whose ancestor was Old Dutch. It was spoken and written between...
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    Variant), could refer to the Dutch language itself, as well as a broader Germanic category depending on context. During the High Middle Ages "Dietsc/Duutsc" was...
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  • Middle Dutch literature (1150–1500) is the Dutch literature produced in the Low Countries from the 12th century to the 16th century. It is preceded by...
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    not much is known about the development of Old Dutch. Old Dutch made the transition to Middle Dutch around 1150. The Christianity that arrived in the...
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  • Dutch aardvark (earth + pig) Aboard from Dutch Aan boord Afrikaans from Dutch Afrikaans (Africanish) Aloof from Old French lof, based on Middle Dutch...
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  • Middle Dutch (Middelnederlands) are used interchangeably to describe the ancestor of Modern Dutch. Although almost from the beginning, several Middle...
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  • from the waterway (Middle Dutch) Zutphen, van – (From Zutphen, city in the Netherlands) Schulze, Lorine McGinnis (2008-03-04). "Dutch Patronymics of the...
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    spoken in the Low Countries during the Early Middle Ages, from around the 6th or 9th to the 12th century. Old Dutch is mostly recorded on fragmentary relics...
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  • includes words from Visigothic, Frankish, Langobardic, Middle Dutch, Middle High German, Middle Low German, Old English, Old High German, Old Norse, Old...
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    from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the predominantly Dutch settlers and enslaved population of the Dutch Cape Colony...
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