Phrase guide
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adj
Related to the Pennsylvania German people or their language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
Those people of German origin who settled in the Pennsylvania area prior to 1800, and their descendants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, in-plural, uncountable
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noun
Their language, Pennsylvania German, a High German language descended from Palatine German.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
The Old Order Amish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, nonstandard, uncountable
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noun
a dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: German, High German, German language
History
From their primary residence in Pennsylvania and from Palatine German Deitsch (“German”), their own endonym, gradually modified under influence from Dutch.
Across languages
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