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Frankish (reconstructed endonym: * Frankisk), [8] [9] also known as Old Franconian or Old Frankish, was the West Germanic language spoken by the Franks from the 5th to 10th centuries. Franks under king Chlodio would settle in Roman Gaul in the 5th century .
West Franconian (Westfränkisch), Old Dutch (Altniederländisch), Old Central Franconian (Altmittelfränkisch), Old East Franconian (Altostfränkisch)Franconian or Frankish is a collective term traditionally used by linguists to refer to many West Germanic languages, some of which are spoken in what formed the historical core area of Francia during the Early Middle Ages.
The word français itself is derived from the Late Latin name for the Franks. The Old Frankish language had a definitive influence on the development of Old French, which partly explains why the earliest attested Old French documents are older than the earliest attestations in other Romance languages (e.g. Strasbourg Oaths, Sequence of Saint ...
In linguistics, Old Dutch (Modern Dutch: Oudnederlands) or Old Low Franconian (Modern Dutch: Oudnederfrankisch) [3] [4] is the set of dialects that evolved from Frankish spoken in the Low Countries during the Early Middle Ages, from around the 6th [5] or 9th [6] to the 12th century. Old Dutch is mostly recorded on fragmentary relics, and words ...
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The Salian Franks spoke Old Frankish or Old Franconian, which later evolved into Old Dutch. [2] In France, Frankish continued to be spoken among the kings and nobility until the time of the Capetian Kings (10th century). [3] Hugh Capet (AD 987), born to a Saxon mother, was reportedly the first King of France to need an interpreter when ...
Reconstructed and harmonized in the manner of the period by Jean Beck. The text is in the original Old French with an English translation by John Murray Gibbon (1875–1952), [183] the songs being in modern French. Adam of Saint Victor. Adam of Saint Victor (died 1146) was a French poet and composer of Latin hymns and sequences. [184]
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.