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Wiehnachtsmann
in Low German
Pronunciation:
/viːnaxt͡sman/
noun
Syllabication:
Wieh·nachts·mann
m
de Wiehnachtsmann
[1]
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Cuxland:
Heinrich Teut:
Hadeler Wörterbuch: der plattdeutsche Wortschatz des Landes Hadeln (Niederelbe).
Wachholtz, 1959, volume 4, page 635
Stader Geest:
Marcus Buck: attested by oral sources on the Stade Geest
Nord-Barnim:
Ludolf Parisius:
Mittelmärkisches Plattdeutsch. Affpàrtije Luunsche Wöre.
videel, Niebüll 2000, ISBN 3-935111-19-3, page 164
Mittel-Küstenpommersch:
Robert Laude:
Hinterpommersches Wörterbuch des Persantegebiets.
Böhlau, Köln 1995, ISBN 3-412-05995-1, page 67
Low Saxon:
Keerl
,
de
to
Wiehnachten
Geschenken
bringt
English:
Santa
Claus
Dutch:
kerstman
German:
Weihnachtsmann
Examples:
De
Wiehnachtsmann
hett
mi
en
ne’e
Popp
bröcht
.
Etymology:
Compound word constructed from:
Wiehnacht
+
Mann
Rhyming words
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Plattmakers is a Low German dictionary that also provides translations in several languages. Get more infos.