Franconian
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- adjective
- The Franconian dialect is spoken by many local residents in that region of Germany.
Examples
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The 43rd annual conference of the German Association for American Studies took place on May 28-30, 1996, in Wurzburg, a festive Franconian city nestled in wine country along the Main River.
Academic text (1996) -
She enjoyed the rich flavors of Franconian cuisine at the traditional restaurant.
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In both Franconian examples, these installations do not occupy the place of the high altar; they appear rather in the center of the nave.
Academic text (2005) -
He laughed a lot and drank two or three liters of Franconian wine at a sitting without being the worse.
Fiction book (1993) -
Of these regions depicted in figure 4, people from Nassau in the Rhenish Franconian region provided most of New Braunfels's population.
Academic text (1990) -
Moreover, wealthy Hanoverian women who married Nassauer men chose the Rhenish Franconian scarf.
Academic text (1990) -
In the Franconian village of Niklashausen, at this time, a wandering preacher drew large crowds and got men to cut off their shoulder-length hair and slash the long tips of their pointed shoes, which were seen as wasteful of leather.
Academic text (2011) -
During the festival, musicians played Franconian folk songs that celebrated their heritage.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Franconian = Franconia (transparent) = Francon + ian
Formed from the place name 'Franconia' with the standard adjectival suffix '-ian' (with minor vowel loss), so the relation to the place is direct and usual for learners.
Etymology
Franconian comes from Franconia, a region in Germany named after the Franks, an old German people. So Franconian means 'from Franconia' or 'about the people, culture, or dialect' of that region.