Nether-Saxon

Etymology
From, influenced by or a calque of 🇨🇬 and similar terms in 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or relating to the Low German tongue, people or culture.
 * 2) * 1825, Edgar Taylor, Sarah Austin, Lays of the minnesingers or German troubadours, page 106:
 * Some of the same songs are, it is said, to be found in the Thuringian dialect in a MS. collection at Jena. Kinderling, in his history of the Plattdeutsch, Nether-Saxon, or Low-German tongue [...]
 * Note: This refers to the German work „Geschichte der Nieder-Sächsischen oder sogenanten Plattdeutschen Sprache vornehmlich bis auf Luthers Zeiten, nebst einer Musterung der vornehmsten Denkmahle dieser Mundart, entworfen von M. Joh. Fried. August Kinderling“ (Magdeburg, 1800), page 262.