Westmünsterländisch

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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

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