page_title: Terminology of the Low Countries
section_title: Theodiscus and derivatives
hierarchical_section_title: Terminology of the Low Countries / Theodiscus and derivatives
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Het nieuw neder-hoog-duitsch en hoog-neder-duitsch woordenboek. Leipzig, 1759. Deutsch: Neues holländisch-deutsches und deutsch-holländisches Wörterbuch. Leipzig, 1759. English: New Dutch-German and German-Dutch dictionary. Leipzig, 1759. By Matthias Kramer (1640–1729). Русский: Новый нидерландско-немецкий и немецко-нидерландский словарь. Лейпциг, 1759.
context_page_description: The Low Countries comprise the coastal Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta region in Western Europe, whose definition usually includes the modern countries of Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. Both Belgium and the Netherlands derived their names from earlier names for the region, due to nether meaning "low" and Belgica being the Latinized name for all the Low Countries, a nomenclature that went obsolete after Belgium's secession in 1830.
  The Low Countries—and the Netherlands and Belgium—had in their history exceptionally many and widely varying names, resulting in equally varying names in different languages. There is diversity even within languages: the use of one word for the country and another for the adjective form is common. This holds for English, where Dutch is the adjective form for the country "the Netherlands". Moreover, many languages have the same word for both the country of the Netherlands and the region of the Low Countries, e.g., French and Spanish.
caption: A Dutch-German dictionary. The languages are in Dutch indicated as Nederduitsch ("Dutch") and Hoogduitsch ("German"), while in German as Holländisch and Deutsch respectively (1759).
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