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dialectism

noun

Etymology

From dialect + -ism.

  1. derived from διάλεκτος
  2. derived from dialectos
  3. derived from dialecte
  4. suffixed as dialectism — “dialect + ism”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of dialecticism.

    • It was the scribe of y who replaced certain dialectisms and less usual forms by the common types, e.g. ...
    • Starting with Jungmann, the opinion that before the National Revival the Czech language was in decay (invaded by dialectisms, inappropriate neologisms, overwhelming loans from German, and so on) then spread ...

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dialectism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA