Dictionary

East Central German en · ADJ

Etymology

Calque of German Ostmitteldeutsch.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) of or pertaining to the East Central German dialects

Relateds

Lusatian · Thuringian · West Central German · Wiktionary’s coverage of East Central German terms

Translations (2)

pl niemiecki wschodniośrodkowy (Translations) · de ostmitteldeutsch (Translations)

East Central German en · PROPN

Etymology

Calque of German Ostmitteldeutsch.

Meanings

1. One of two major subgroups of the Central German dialects; spoken primarily in the German states of Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, and Berlin, and until 1945 in large parts of what is now western and southern Poland; distinguished from West Central German by the shift of pre-Old High German initial *p- to pf- (now usually f-).

Holonyms

Central German

Meronyms

Silesian · High Prussian · Thuringian · Upper Saxon · Upper Saxonian

Translations (2)

pl dialekt wschodniośrodkowy języka niemieckiego (Translations) · de Ostmitteldeutsch (Translations)