Netherlandish

English

Etymology

From Netherland(s) +‎ -ish.

Adjective

Netherlandish (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Of or pertaining to the Netherlands.

Proper noun

Netherlandish

  1. (dated) The Dutch language.
    • 1897, Chamber's encyclopœdia:
      It has been said that Old English is Dutch, and to no other nation is the study of the Netherlandish more interesting than to the English.
    • 1991, Sarah Grey Thomason, Terrence Kaufman, Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, page 321:
      Low Dutch means both Low Frankish (or Netherlandish) and Low Saxon (or “Low German”).

Translations
Dutch — see Dutch

See also

Synonyms
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