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adj
Of or pertaining to the Ripuarian people or (one of) its members or descendants.
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adj
Of or pertaining to one, all, or any of the Ripuarian dialects.
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adj
Of or pertaining to a Ripuarian speaker or speakers.
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name
A West Central German dialect group, spoken in the northern Rhineland (including the cities of Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Aachen), as well as parts of German-speaking Belgium and south-eastern Limburg (Netherlands); linguistically, the least affected by the consonant shift of all High German dialects
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noun
Any of the Ripuarian tribal section of the Frank people (comprising several tribes), who after some migration inhabited this region, as opposed to the Salian branch.
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History
From Medieval Latin Ripuarius (perhaps from Latin ripa (“river bank”)) + -an.
Across languages
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