English

Alternative forms

• Nether-Saxon

Proper noun

Nethersaxon

1. (rare) Low German.
   • 1825, Edgar Taylor, Sarah Austin, Lays of the minnesingers or German troubadours:

     Some of the same songs are, it is said, to be found in the Thuringian dialect in a MS. collection at Jena. Kinderling, in his history of the Plattdeutsch, NetherSaxon, or Low-German tongue [...]

Adjective

Nethersaxon ‎(comparative more Nethersaxon, superlative most Nethersaxon)

1. (rare) Of or relating to the Low German tongue, people, or culture.
   • 1949, Johns Hopkins University, Modern language notes:

     Much of the conservative rationality of the Nethersaxon Duke, the Braunschweiger of the basin between the Elbe and Weser north of the Harz mountains, is reflected in this Fool, a fact which Mr. Knight might better substitute for his [...]