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- proper noun
Plautdietsch (a variety of Low Prussian East Low German), particularly as it is spoken by Mennonites outsideGermany : inNorth andSouth America ,Russia , and some other countries. (Not to be confused with the High German languagePennsylvania German .)
Etymologies
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Mennonite + Low German, because Mennonites were the ones to carry it out of Prussia.
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