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Wiehnachtsfier
in Low German
Pronunciation:
/viːnaxt͡sfiː͡ɐ/
noun
Syllabication:
Wieh·nachts·fier
Plural:
Wiehnachtsfiern
f
de Wiehnachtsfier
[1]
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Cuxland:
Heinrich Teut:
Hadeler Wörterbuch: der plattdeutsche Wortschatz des Landes Hadeln (Niederelbe).
Wachholtz, 1959, volume 1, page 545
Low Saxon:
Fier
to
Wiehnachten
English:
Christmas
party
Dutch:
kerstviering
German:
Weihnachtsfeier
Examples:
Op
de
Wiehnachtsfier
heff
ik
een
toveel
drunken
.
City of Boston Archives from West Roxbury, United States, CC BY 2.0
Etymology:
Compound word constructed from:
Wiehnacht
+
Fier
Rhyming words
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Plattmakers is a Low German dictionary that also provides translations in several languages. Get more infos.