Low Prussian

English

Etymology

Calque of German Niederpreußisch.

Proper noun

Low Prussian

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.

Holonyms

• East Low German
  • Low German

Coordinate terms

• High Prussian

Translations

Translations

• French: bas-prussien (fr) m
• German: Niederpreußisch (de) n