Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Maas

Do you have a source to prove that German is borrowed from Dutch? It doesn't make much sense to me because speakers of Central German and German Low Franconian have always lived so close to the river that the name can impossibly have been lost at some point in time. Maas would be the expected outcome of Germanic in these areas (which all have apocope). This is not to say that word “Maas” in modern standard German isn't based on Dutch at least to some degree. But I'm not sure about your statement that the word had died out in all languages but Dutch. See also the Rheinisches Wörterbuch where dozens of sayings involving the Maas are given:.