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Zealandic

Zealandic proper noun: the dialect of Danish spoken in Zealand, island in the North Sea. Also the alternative spelling of Zeelandic.

zealandic: the dialect of Danish spoken in Zealand, island in the North Sea
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Proper noun

Zealandic

  1. The dialect of Danish spoken in Zealand, island in the North Sea.
    • This "Danish" in fact reflected local dialects; a standard language did not yet exist. But a certain dominance of Zealandic forms is visible already in the late Middle Ages: the administrative, ecclesiastical and commercial center of Denmark lay on Zealand (Roskilde, Copenhagen), and a Zealandic...1993, Lars S. Vikør, The Nordic Languages: Their Status and Interrelations, page 44
    • Here it seems natural to pay attention to some North-east Zealandic names ending in -rum, viz. Wigarum, AEsarum (and Niartherum ?).2013, Gudmund Schutte, Our Forefathers - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 391

Adjective

Zealandic (comparative more Zealandic, superlative most Zealandic)

  1. Pertaining to the Danish island of Zealand.
    • At the same time he was able — outside the Church— to captivate entirely different audiences by discovering and exploiting the kind of language they understood and the subjects that appealed to them: students, artisans and, at political meetings, sometimes sailors and sometimes Zealandic farmers.1972, Kaj Thaning (David Hohnen, translater), N.F.S. Grundtvig, page 11
    • But why had some Zealandic peasants suddenly become so involved in church discipline and more Gregorian than many Danish clerics of the time?2002, Martin Schwarz Lausten, A Church History of Denmark, page 27
  2. Pertaining to the central standard Danish dialect.

Also used as

Zealandic is also the alternative spelling of Zeelandic.

Examples of Zealandic in a sentence

  • ...the extent of the deflectional changes varies among the dialects, Jutish always having gone the furthest, Scanian always the most conservative, with Zealandic taking an intermediate position.2009, Janet Duke, The development of gender as a grammatical category:
  • Districts are mentioned in a royal charter from 1085 by which King Knud IV (r.1080–1086; later canonized) donated land in a number of Scanian and Zealandic districts to the cathedral chapter of Lund.2016, Ditlev Tamm, Helle Vogt, The Danish Medieval Laws: the laws of Scania, Zealand and Jutland, →ISBN:

Forms of Zealandic

comparativemore Zealandic
superlativemost Zealandic

Origin of Zealandic

From Zealand + -ic.

Phrases with Zealandic

Questions about Zealandic

What does Zealandic mean?
Zealandic means the dialect of Danish spoken in Zealand, island in the North Sea.
How do you use Zealandic in a sentence?
...the extent of the deflectional changes varies among the dialects, Jutish always having gone the furthest, Scanian always the most conservative, with Zealandic taking an intermediate position.
What part of speech is Zealandic?
Zealandic can be a proper noun or an adjective.

Words near Zealandic in the dictionary

  1. Zealand
  2. Zealander
  3. Zealanders
  4. Zealandia
  5. Zealandian
  6. Zealandic
  7. zealant
  8. zealants
  9. zeale
  10. zealed
  11. zealexin

Source and license

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