◆ Lexicon
A working lexicon of West Germanic memory.
A curated record of words attested in elder voices across Dutch, Afrikaans, German, English, and West Frisian. Some are genuinely vanishing — words a 75-year-old uses naturally that a 25-year-old has to ask about. Others are alive but illuminating: words that travel between languages, words with no clean equivalent, words that have quietly displaced their predecessors.
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deftig
/ˈdɛf.təx/
adjective
Distinguished, respectable, of good standing; (in elder use) dignified, decent, well-bred. In younger speakers'...
displaced
NL
AF
oma / opa
/ˈoː.maː/ /ˈoː.paː/
noun
Grandmother / grandfather; informal Dutch and German kinship terms that displaced the older compound forms in...
displaced
NL
AF
DE
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