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Rhenish fan

name

Etymology

Calque of German Rheinischer Fächer. So called because all or most of the isoglosses collapse in Hesse and fan out to the west.

calqued from Rheinischer Fächer

Definitions

A set of isoglosses in West Central German showing how the effect of the High German…
A set of isoglosses in West Central German showing how the effect of the High German consonant shift gradually decreases towards the north-west (i.e. towards Low Franconian and Low Saxon)
Alternative letter-case form of Rhenish fan.

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