What does mienwuat mean?

You may have wondered what mienwuat means if you happened across this blog. The name of the blog is "My Word" and mienwuat means exactly that. Mienwuat is in the language called Plautdietsch, the Low German or Niedersaxon of the Mennonites.

Low German was the German spoken in the lowlands or inthe north near the sea, whereas High German was spoken in the highlands or in the southern areas of German settled land. English, the language that came out of the language spoken by the Saxons and Angles is a dialect of Low German. Plautdietsch of today is a language that has evolved over the years and due to migration from Western Europe to the low lands of Poland near Danzig, and then later to south Russia or Ukraine, picked up loan words from the areas settled. It still retains it's unique character and rich expressivness.

For a great essay on the roots of Low German see http://www.mhsbc.com/news/v11n03/p11.htm and if you enjoy listening to Plautdietsch then go to http://www.plautcast.com/ or http://www.plautcast.blogspot.com/

If the world was plaudietsch it would be called Plautdietschlaunt