Zealandic
adj, name ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
- 2 Pertaining to the central standard Danish dialect.
- 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 chancery style (inspired by German and Latin syntax) was developing."
- 2 Alternative spelling of Zeelandic, a language spoken in Zeeland, province of the Netherlands. alt-of, alternative
"In Zealandic Dutch ben- is the stem for the present tense for all persons except for 3SG (is)."
Example
More examples"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 chancery style (inspired by German and Latin syntax) was developing."
Etymology
From Zealand + -ic.
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