Mecklenburgish

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English

Etymology

From Mecklenburg +‎ -ish, possible after German mecklenburgisch/Mecklenburgisch.

Proper noun

Mecklenburgish

  1. The variety of Low German which is spoken in Mecklenburg.
    Synonym: Mecklenburg dialect
    • 1891, Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and Language, volume 29, entry "PLATT":
      It has various local dialects, as Mecklenburgish, East-Frisian, etc.
    • 2013, Charles Russ, The Dialects of Modern German: A Linguistic Survey, Routledge, →ISBN, page 98:
      In spite of the uniformity of Mecklenburgish, regional differences also occur, such as those between east and west. Here the differences point to a two-part structural division of Mecklenburgish, which in former times was much stronger. In the east, the vowel series MLG []
    • 2018, Kurt Goblirsch, Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening: Volume 157: On the History of Quantity in Germanic, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 7:
      The first is a large area in Low Saxon and Mecklenburgish in northern Low German, while the second is a smaller one in Ripuarian and bordering Mosel Franconian.

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Adjective

Mecklenburgish (not comparable)

  1. From or pertaining to Mecklenburg, its inhabitants, or their dialect.
    • 1853 September 22, C. Hansen of Brooklyn, New York, in a letter published in 1854 in the Congressional Edition, volume 692 / 712, page 762:
      The we take the Russians, Prussians, Danish, the Hanse Towns, Hanoverians, Oldenburgish, Mecklenburgish, and Lubeckish ships, together, which cleared and entered the United States in 1848 to 1852
    • 1882, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Time, page 736:
      He is nothing if he is not Mecklenburgish; a son of the soil, he has remained true to the soil, whose very aroma he reproduces in his works.

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