Flemish

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or relating to Flanders, either as the historical county of Flanders (the current provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders in Belgium, Zeelandic Flanders in the Netherlands and French Flanders); or as the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium.
• Of or relating to the Belgian standard variety of the Dutch language.
• Of or relating to West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.

Proper Noun

• Standard Dutch as it is spoken in Flanders.
• West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.

Origin

• From Middle English flemmysshe, from Old Frisian flemsche, from Middle Dutch vlāmisch, vlemesch (modern Dutch Vlaams), from Old Frisian flamsk (compare West Frisian Flaamsk), from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz and *-iskaz. More at Flanders.