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Danism

Danism noun: a distinctively Danish word or borrowing, linguistic feature, etc.

Noun

Danism (plural Danisms)

  1. A distinctively Danish word or borrowing, linguistic feature, etc.
    • Among the lights which guide our path through the obscurity of the Transition period, we may mention the Cursor Mundi as a work in which many Danisms are preserved, […]1875, The Quarterly review, page 458
    • […] it is not easy to see why the Danisms which are both more common and more natural, […]
      […] but concludes that "it is quite as likely that it is a Danism."2012, H. Logeman, A Commentary, critical and explanatory on the Norwegian text of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt its language, literary associations and folklore, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN...

Forms of Danism

pluralDanisms

Questions about Danism

What does Danism mean?
Danism means a distinctively Danish word or borrowing, linguistic feature, etc.
What part of speech is Danism?
Danism is a noun.
What is the plural of Danism?
The plural of Danism is Danisms.

Words near Danism in the dictionary

  1. Danishmendid
  2. Danishmendids
  3. Danishmends
  4. Danishness
  5. Danislav
  6. Danism
  7. Danisms
  8. Danite
  9. Danites
  10. danitracen
  11. Danization

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