Rhenish fan
Linguistics
noun
A fan-shaped bundle of isoglosses separating Low from High German in the Rhine valley.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), linguist. After German rheinischer Fächer.
- sub-bituminous
- Sub-Boreal
- subbotnik
- sub-bottom
- subbrachial
- subbrachian
- sub-branch
- sub-branched
- sub-breed
- sub-brigadier
- Subbuteo
- subby
- subcalibre
- subcanopy
- subcapsular
- sub-Carboniferous
- subcardinal
- subcarrier
- subcartilagineous
- subcartilaginous
- subcategorisation
- subcategorise
- subcategorization
- subcategorize
- subcategory