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English
Etymology
From Mecklenburg + -ish, possible after German mecklenburgisch/Mecklenburgisch.
Proper noun
Mecklenburgish
- 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)
- 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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