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Westmünsterländisch en · NOUN

Etymology

From German Westmünsterländisch.

Meanings

1. the Low German dialect of the Westmünsterland
   • This idiom corresponds to an idiom in the Low German dialect Westmünsterländisch, … 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
   • The first systematic study of dialectal phraseology covers the Low German dialect Westmünsterländisch (WML) (Piirainen 1994, 2000). 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)
   • 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). 1998, Peter Constantine, “Georg Bühren / translated by Peter Constantine”, in Modern Poetry in Translation: New Series / No. 13, page 89:

Coordinates

Münsterländisch · South Westphalian

Holonyms

Westphalian · Low German · Low Saxon

Synonyms

WML

Translations (2)

de westmünsterländische Mundart (Translations) · de Westmünsterlandisch (Translations)