21-1144: Thyssen is a Low Frankish and Dutch patronymic surname . It is derived from the common given name Thijs , a short form of Mathijs ( Matthew ). The Dutch digraph ij and the y ("ij" without dots) were used interchangeably until the surname spelling fixations around 1810. While Thijssen is the more common form in the Netherlands, "Thyssen" prevails elsewhere. It may refer to: People [ edit ] Craig Thyssen (born 1984), South African cricketer Greta Thyssen (1933–2018), Danish film actress and model Ingrid Thyssen (born 1956), German javelin thrower Marianne Thyssen (born 1956), Belgian politician and EU Commissioner Nicole Thyssen (born 1988), Dutch tennis player Ole Thyssen (born 1944), Danish philosopher and sociologist Thyssen family , an industrialist family originating in Aachen, with many notable members including: Friedrich Thyssen (1804–1877), German banker August Thyssen (1842–1926), German founder of
42-567: A Swedish nobleman Nicole Thijssen (born 1988), Dutch tennis player Theo Thijssen (1879–1943), Dutch writer, teacher and socialist politician Walter Thijssen (1877–1943), Dutch rower Thijsen Ady Thijsen (born 1958), Aruban politician Cornelius Didrikson Thijsen Anckarstierna (1655–1714), Swedish admiral and noble born as Cornelis Thijsen Thijsse Jac. P. Thijsse (1865–1945), Dutch conservationist and botanist See also [ edit ] Thyssen [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
63-522: A period of Francisation under the auspices of the French government. Similarly, in the Lower Rhine region, local literary Low Franonian varieties were employed in official use until the 17th century, but were subsequently replaced by standard German in most parts, except for Upper Guelders and Cleves (both since 1701 part of Prussia ), where standard Dutch prevailed as literary language. Following
84-614: A synonym of Low Franconian at its earlier historical stages, thereby signifying the category's close relation to Dutch, without using it as a synonym. Low Franconian is sometimes, and especially was historically, grouped together with Low Saxon , referred to as Low German . However, this grouping is not based on common linguistic innovations, but rather on the absence of the High German consonant shift . In fact, in nineteenth century literature this grouping could also include English , another West Germanic language that did not undergo
105-651: Is a linguistic category used to classify a number of historical and contemporary West Germanic varieties closely related to, and including, the Dutch language . Most dialects and languages included within this category are spoken in the Netherlands , northern Belgium ( Flanders ), in the Nord department of France, in western Germany ( Lower Rhine ), as well as in Suriname , South Africa and Namibia . Low Franconian
126-458: Is a purely linguistic category and not used as a term of self-designation among any of the speakers of the Germanic dialects traditionally grouped within it. Within the field of historical philology , the terminology for the historical phases of Low Franconian is not analogous to the traditional Old High German / Middle High German and Old Low German / Middle Low German dichotomies, with
147-521: Is also found in all other High German dialects, and the characteristic pitch accent , which is exclusively shared with Ripuarian and Moselle Franconian . Until the Early Modern Period , all speakers of varieties of Low Franconian used Middle Dutch or Early Modern Dutch as their literary language and Dachsprache . There was a marked change in the 19th century, when the historically Dutch-speaking region of French Flanders underwent
168-674: Is either defined by the onset of the Second Germanic consonant shift in Eastern Frankish, the assimilation of an unattested coastal dialect showing North Sea Germanic features by West Frankish in the late 9th century, or a combination of both. Old Low Franconian is, on its turn, divided into two subgroups: Old West Low Franconian (spoken in Flanders, Brabant and Holland) and Old East Low Franconian (spoken in Limburg and
189-848: Is particularly common in the Dutch provinces of North Brabant and Limburg . [1] People with this surname include: Thijssen Angenelle Thijssen [ de ; nl ] (born 1961), Dutch painter and glass artist Felix Thijssen (1933–2022), Dutch novelist François Thijssen (died 1638), Dutch explorer of the south coast of Australia Frans Thijssen (born 1952), Dutch footballer Gerben Thijssen (born 1998), Belgian racing cyclist Henny Thijssen (born 1952), Dutch singer and music producer Kees Thijssen [ et ; nl ; ru ] (born 1975), Dutch draughts player Leon Thijssen (born 1968), Dutch show jumper Lynn Thijssen (born 1992), Dutch volleyball player Maerten Thijssen (died 1657), Dutch admiral who later became
210-976: The Massacre of Rechnitz [ de ; it ; pl ] Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921–2002), founder of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum , son of Heinrich Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza (born 1958), Swiss art collector and by marriage Francesca von Habsburg , daughter of Hans Heinrich Tita Thyssen née Carmen Cervera (born 1943), Spanish model and art collector, fifth wife of Hans Heinrich Bodo Thyssen (1918–2004), German industrialist and medical doctor, grandson of Joseph Thysse Andre Thysse (1968–2021), South African heavyweight boxer Thyssens Germaine Thyssens-Valentin (1902–1987), Dutch-born French pianist Other [ edit ] Thyssen AG , steel company founded by August Thyssen, with successors and subsidiaries including: ThyssenKrupp , one of
231-500: The surname Thijssen . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thijssen&oldid=1185589322 " Categories : Surnames Dutch-language surnames Patronymic surnames Surnames from given names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
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#1732775450701252-711: The Rhineland). Old West Low Franconian "is the ancestor ultimately of Dutch". Low Franconian includes: South Low Franconian occupies a special position among the Low Franconian subgroups, since it shares several linguistic features with Ripuarian dialects spoken to the southeast, such as the conditioned split of the West Germanic diphthongs *ai and *au (e.g. in Roermonds *ai splits to /eː/ and /ɛi/, *au to /oː/ and /ɔu/), which apart from Ripuarian
273-536: The Thyssen steel company, son of Friedrich Joseph Thyssen (1844–1915), German industrialist, son of Friedrich Fritz Thyssen (1873–1951), head of the Thyssen mining and steelmaking company, son of August Heinrich Thyssen later Heinrich Freiherr Thyssen-Bornemisza (1875–1947), German-Hungarian entrepreneur and art collector, son of August Margit Thyssen [ de ; nl ; jp ] , baroness Batthyány (1911–1989), daughter of Heinrich, associated with
294-459: The consonant shift. The term Frankish or Franconian as a modern linguistic category was coined by the German linguist Wilhelm Braune (1850–1926). He divided Franconian which contained both Germanic dialects which had and had not experienced the Second Germanic consonant shift into Low, Middle and High Franconian , with the use of Low signifying that this category did not participate in
315-491: The dialects generally being accepted to be the most direct descendants of Old Frankish. As such, Old Dutch and Middle Dutch , together with loanwords in Old French , are the principal languages used to reconstruct Old Frankish using the comparative method . Within historical linguistics, Old Low Franconian is synonymous with Old Dutch. Depending on the author, the temporal boundary between Old Dutch and Old Frankish
336-556: The incoporation of Upper Guelders and Cleves into the Prussian Rhine Province , there was extensive Germanisation , and Dutch was replaced by German for official use, and its use discouraged in favor of German in the public sphere, leading to a rapid decline in the use of standard Dutch. Vernacular Low Franconian varieties continue to be spoken in the Lower Rhine region to this day, but many speakers have switched to local colloquial forms of German ( Umgangssprache ) since
357-516: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thyssen&oldid=1120334720 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Patronymic surnames Surnames from given names Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Low Franconian languages In historical and comparative linguistics , Low Franconian
378-437: The second half of the 20th century due to increased mobility and wider access to mass media. In addition, the historically Dutch-speaking Brussels Capital Region is officially bilingual, but now largely francophone. Thijssen Thijssen , Thijsen and Thijsse are Dutch patronymic surnames . The common Dutch given name Thijs is a short form of Mathijs (= Matthew ). Thijssen
399-622: The sound shift. Despite the name, the diachronical connection to Old Frankish , the unattested language spoken by the Franks , is unclear for most of the varieties grouped under the broad "Franconian" category, mainly due to the heavy influence of Elbe Germanic / High German features in the Middle and High Franconian varieties following the Migration Period . The dialects of the Low Franconian grouping form an exception to this, with
420-464: The terms Old Dutch and Middle Dutch commonly being preferred to Old Low Franconian and Middle Low Franconian in most contexts. Due to the category's strong interconnection with the Dutch language and its historical forms , Low Franconian is occasionally used interchangeably with Dutch , though the latter term can have a broader as well as narrower meaning depending on the specific context. English publications alternatively use Netherlandic as
441-425: The world's largest steel producers, formed by merger of the Thyssen and Krupp steel companies See also [ edit ] Thissen Thiessen (disambiguation) Thijssen Thys Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Thyssen . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
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