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semidialectal

adj

Etymology

From semi- + dialectal.

  1. derived from διάλεκτος
  2. derived from dialectos
  3. derived from dialecte
  4. suffixed as dialectal — “dialect + al”
  5. prefixed as semidialectal — “semi + dialectal”

Definitions

  1. Having a mixture of dialectal and standard words or grammar

    • It does not suffice to collect a few semiliterate, semidialectal speakers to construct a descriptive grammar of a big language of modern civilization. If we try, we may emerge with a descriptive grammar of a few idiolects or dialects […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for semidialectal. 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