Westmünsterländisch

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Etymology

German Westmünsterländisch

Noun

Westmünsterländisch

  1. the Low German dialect of the Westmünsterland
    • 2015, Torben Arboe, Chapter 8: Receding idioms in West Danish (Jutlandic), in: Language Endangerment, edited by Elisabeth Piirainen & Ari Sherris, volume 7 of Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, p. 163 and 167:
      • This idiom corresponds to an idiom in the Low German dialect Westmünsterländisch,
      • It may be noted that to the first of these idioms a parallel is found in Westmünsterländisch, e.g.
    • 2007, Elisabeth Piirainen, Dialectal phraseology: Linguistic aspects, in: Phraseologie / Phraseology: Ein internationales Handbuch zeitgenössischer Forschung / An International Handbook of Contemporary Research, p. 533 (note: after the first usage of the full form, the abbreviation WML is used):
      The first systematic study of dialectal phraseology covers the Low German dialect Westmünsterländisch (WML) (Piirainen 1994, 2000).
    • 1998, Peter Constantine, “Georg Bühren / translated by Peter Constantine”, in Modern Poetry in Translation: New Series / No. 13, page 89:
      Peter Constantine writes: Low German – Niederdeutsch or Plattdeutsch – is spoken throughout northern Germany from the Dutch border to Pomerania. Its four main dialects are Westphalian, Eastphalian, Westmünsterländisch (Sandplatt) and Münsterländisch (Kleiplatt).

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Etymology

From westmünsterländisch, from Westmünsterland + -isch.

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Proper noun

Westmünsterländisch n (proper noun, language name, genitive Westmünsterländisch or Westmünsterländischs, alternative nominative (used with the definite article) Westmünsterländische, alternative genitive Westmünsterländischen, no plural)

  1. Westmünsterländisch
    Synonym: westmünsterländische Mundart f

Declension

Declension of Westmünsterländisch
singular   (explanation of the use and meaning of the forms)
(usually without article) noun def. noun
nominative (das) Westmünsterländisch das Westmünsterländische
genitive (des) Westmünsterländisch, Westmünsterländischs des Westmünsterländischen
dative (dem) Westmünsterländisch dem Westmünsterländischen
accusative (das) Westmünsterländisch das Westmünsterländische

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