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Plautdietsch Around The Globe
Early borrowings still found in English words preserved in Mexican and Paraguayan (Menno Colony) Plautdietsch:
- Koa ‘car’ - Peddla ‘peddler’
- Kjäkj ‘cake’ - Trock ‘truck’
- Zista ‘cistern’ - Diepfriesa(sch) ‘deep freezer(s)’
- Kottalöag ‘catalogue’ - Pienatsbotta ‘peant butter’
- feiten ‘to fight’ - jleichen ‘to like’
- Stua ‘store’
Notes:
Cf. Thiessen (1963); Hedges, Kelly Lynn. 1996. Plautdietsch and Huuchdietsch in Chihuahua: Language, Literacy, and Identity among the Old Colony Mennonites in Northern Mexico. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University.