Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Franconia.
- adjective Of or relating to Franconian.
- adjective Of or relating to Old Low Franconian.
- noun Any of a group of Old and Middle High German dialects of west-central Germany.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Franconia, a medieval German duchy south of Thuringia, later the name of several territorial divisions, and now of three provinces (Upper, Middle, and Lower Franconia) of Bavaria, consisting of parts of the old duchy.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Franconia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to the
Franks or their empire;Frankish . - proper noun A
linguistic marker for a number of West Germanic languages anddialects spoken in the former core of the Frankish Empire: the Low Countries (The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) and western Germany. Within these groups there are a number of well known languages and dialects, such as Dutch and Afrikaans but also the Pennsylvania German language spoken in North America.
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Examples
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This method was used to create blades including the Japanese Samurai, Franconian and Indian Wootz swords during different periods of time in history.
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Bamberg, in the Franconian part of Bavaria, is known for its Rauchbier (smoked beer).
Earth, wind and fire: tasting the terroir, Sonoma, 2008 | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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I got a small plate of Franconian wurst, and began the feast.
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But never before had he experienced cultural loss in such a visceral way as he did on the afternoon of Friday, July 20, when his jeep crested the thickly forested Franconian Hills and he saw what remained of Nürnberg.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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But never before had he experienced cultural loss in such a visceral way as he did on the afternoon of Friday, July 20, when his jeep crested the thickly forested Franconian Hills and he saw what remained of Nürnberg.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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This led to terminal obstruent devoicing spreading to the rest of the continuum, and I suspect that þd may also have originated with the Franconian node though this is little more than speculation.
The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model 2009
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What it instead indicates is that there were three "nodes", three centers of change, three wave sources, in the West Germanic dialect continuum: Ingvaeonic, Franconian, and German.
The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model 2009
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The notation, is late Franconian, from around 1330.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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In the South of Germany some breads are seasoned with Bavarian style bread spice, containing coriander, caraway, fennel and aniseed or Franconian style breadspice, mixture …
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All right, the phenomenon I noticed was a shifting center of change, specifically with regards to Franconian.
The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model 2009
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