…have traditionally been called “Frankish”; the dialects of the northeastern part of the Netherlands (Overijssel, Drenthe, Groningen) have been called “Saxon” and show certain affinities with Low German dialects to the east. On the basis of other linguistic features, it is also possible to group together the dialects to…

…taken some 700 words from Frankish (a Germanic language), not all of which have survived but some of which have passed via French into other Romance languages. Many of those were concerned with agriculture (jardin ‘garden,’ houe ‘hoe,’ blé ‘wheat,’ gerbe ‘sheaf,’ etc.) or with war (guerre ‘war,’ heaume ‘helmet’)…