◆ 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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boer
/buːr/
noun
Farmer, peasant; (historical, capitalised) Afrikaner settler of Dutch descent in South Africa; (South African...
politically loaded
NL
AF
EN
Heimat
/ˈhaɪ̯maːt/
noun
Homeland; the place (region, landscape, community) that formed one's identity — carrying emotional depth, belonging,...
politically loaded
DE
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