pomeranian
/ˌpɒməˈɹeɪniən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.58 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, from or relating to Pomerania, a historic region split between the German states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg and the Pomeranian Voivodeship, West Pomeranian Voivodeship and Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland.
noun
A native or inhabitant of Pomerania.
name
Pomeranian Low German.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Pomeranian (dog)
Example Sentences
- "In my 2002 research project I focused on the documentation of the Pomeranian Low German as spoken in the state of Wisconsin."
- "This was expressed by a Pomeranian Low German speaker born in 1903 in Hamburg, Marathon County: …"
- "Runge's version, published by Arnim in 1808, is in Pomeranian (low German) dialect, and …"
- "Among their dialects the Rhine Franconian and Moselle-Franconian varieties prevailed, but other dialects were present as well, such as Upper German Swabian, Low German Westphalian, Pomeranian, and the Mennonite varieties, and even Volga German."
- "… the language of everyday use is characterized by a wide panorama of local dialectal variation, ranging from Low German dialects in the north (e.g. Low Saxon, Westphalian, Pomeranian), through Central German dialects (e.g. Hessian, Thuringian, Silesian) to the High German dialects of the south (e.g. Bavarian, High Alemannic, Alsatian and Franconian) …"
- "A second important isogloss that separates Pomeranian from the other Low German variants, … These strong morphemes are absent in the North Sea Germanic area, as well as in Pomeranian."
Etymology
From Pomerania + -an. Through Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off”), distant doublet of pomegranate, whose first element is from Latin pomum, which itself is from Proto-Italic *poomos (“taken off > fruit”).