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Weihsand
in Low German
Pronunciation:
/vaɪ̯zant/
noun
Syllabication:
Weih·sand
Does not appear in plural
m
de Weihsand
[1]
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Cuxland:
Heinrich Teut:
Hadeler Wörterbuch: der plattdeutsche Wortschatz des Landes Hadeln (Niederelbe).
Wachholtz, 1959, volume 4, page 595
Low Saxon:
Sand
,
de
mit
’n
Wind
drifft
English:
driving
sand
flying
sand
windborne
sand
Dutch:
stuifzand
German:
Flugsand
Examples:
An
de
Küst
sünd
veel
Dünenrosen
plant
worrn
,
dat
de
Wutteln
den
Weihsand
fasthoolt
.
Heje, CC BY 3.0
Etymology:
Compound word constructed from:
weihn
+
Sand
Rhyming words
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