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netherlandsnoun	The main constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located primarily in Western Europe bordering Germany and Belgium. Capital and largest city: Amsterdam.
languagenoun	(countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
friesiannoun	A breed of black and white dairy cattle; any individual cow of that breed.
old frisiannoun	a West Germanic language spoken on parts of the North Sea coast of modern Netherlands and Germany until the 16th century
anglo-frisiannoun	A group of Germanic languages, including English, Scots and Frisian.
middle frisiannoun	(linguistics) The language descended from Old Frisian spoken on the North Sea coast of modern Netherlands and Germany from the 16th century until c. 1820.
west germanicnoun	(linguistics) The branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages, Dutch, Afrikaans, Low Saxon languages, German, and Yiddish, and their immediate predecessors.
germanicnoun	Relating to the Germanic peoples (such as Germans, Scandinavians or Anglo-Saxons).
old dutchnoun	A branch of Old Low Franconian, with a Frisian substrate, spoken and written during the Middle Ages (c. 9th to 12th century) in the Netherlands and the northern part of present-day Belgium, as well as in areas of northern France along the North Sea coast and adjoining Belgium. This language represents the first attested stage of the Dutch language and its dialects, being succeeded by Middle Dutch in the later Middle Ages.
old low franconiannoun	(strict sense) The West Germanic language that is the ancestor of modern Dutch and its varieties.
low germannoun	A West Germanic language spoken in Low (i.e. Northern) Germany and north-eastern parts of the Netherlands, and formerly also in large parts of eastern and north-eastern Europe, which developed out of Middle Low German from Old Saxon; often treated as a dialect group of German (or Dutch) for convenience, but widely recognized as a separate language.
ingvaeonicnoun	(linguistics) North Sea Germanic, a postulated grouping of the West Germanic languages that comprises Old Frisian, Old English, and Old Saxon (and their descendants).
clay frisiannoun	A dialect of West Frisian spoken in the clay region.
middle low franconiannoun	A language, successor to Old Low Franconian and ancestor to the modern Dutch language, spoken from about 1150 to about 1500.
western frisiannoun	Synonym of West Frisian.
north germanicnoun	(linguistics) A branch of the Germanic language family which comprises Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish
frisiinoun	(historical) A tribe of Northern Germany who dwelt between the rivers Rhine and Ems.
dutchlandnoun	(dated) The region of Continental Europe populated by speakers of Low, Middle and High West Germanic languages, roughly corresponding to the Netherlands, Flanders, Germany, Austria, and parts of Switzerland.
heligolandicnoun	A dialect of the North Frisian language spoken on the German island of Heligoland in the North Sea.
low saxonnoun	A group of related dialects of Low German, spoken in northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands, formerly also in Denmark.