Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Maas/reply (2)

Well. You wouldn't find Old High German texts from these areas probably. MHG maybe. But it's you who made the claim that the word died out in all languages but Dutch. Now I don't see how the word can possibly have died out in the dialect of Aachen. That's a pretty daring claim when the river is less than 20 km from this city. So my opinion is that common sense proves that the Aachen dialect has always had a word for a major river less than 20 km from itself. And since (in my definition) it is a dialect of German, the word hasn't died out in German.