zealandic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative spelling of Zeelandic, a language spoken in Zeeland, province of the Netherlands.
adj
Pertaining to the Danish island of Zealand.
adj
Pertaining to the central standard Danish dialect.
Example Sentences
- "This "Danish" in fact reflected local dialects; a standard language did not yet exist. But a certain dominance of Zealandic forms is visible already in the late Middle Ages: the administrative, ecclesiastical and commercial center of Denmark lay on Zealand (Roskilde, Copenhagen), and a Zealandic chancery style (inspired by German and Latin syntax) was developing."
- "Here it seems natural to pay attention to some North-east Zealandic names ending in -rum, viz. Wigarum, AEsarum (and Niartherum ?)."
- "...the extent of the deflectional changes varies among the dialects, Jutish always having gone the furthest, Scanian always the most conservative, with Zealandic taking an intermediate position."
- "In Zealandic Dutch ben- is the stem for the present tense for all persons except for 3SG (is)."
- "Within Middle Dutch we can distinguish five large dialect groups: Flemish (including Zealandic), sometimes subdivided into West and East Flemish, was spoken in the modern region ofWest and East Flanders (Ghent, Bruges, Courtray); Brabantian was the language of the area covered by the modern Dutch province of North Brabant and the Belgian provinces of Brabant and Antwerp; Hollandic was mainly used in the present day provinces of North and South Holland and parts of Utrecht, while the people in Limburg (now a part of the Netherlands and Belgium) communicated in the Limburgish dialect."
- "Zealandic has a southern lexicon and there is no trace of a partially southern lexicon in Afrikaans."
Etymology
Etymology tree English Zealand Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English Zealandic From Zealand + -ic.
Inflected Forms
more Zealandic (comparative)
most Zealandic (superlative)