| 单词 |
Greenlandish |
| 释义 |
Greenlandish, a.|ˈgriːnləndɪʃ|
[f. as prec. + -ish.]
Characteristic of Greenland.
In mod. Dicts.
[f. Greenland n. + -ish.] A. adj. Of or characteristic of Greenland. B. absol. or as n. The dialect of Inuit spoken by the Eskimos of Greenland.
1791J. Bentham Let. in Corr. (1981) IV. 338 There is something Greenlandish, too, in the air of that old castle. 1816P. S. Duponceau Let. 3 Aug. in Trans. Hist. & Lit. Comm. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1819) I. 403 It is not the first syllable that is borrowed, as in the above example from the Greenlandish, but the principle appears, nevertheless, to be the same in both languages. 1872Geol. Mag. IX. 299 The Danish artisans in Greenland..often marry natives. The children in these cases are said..to learn..in general only Greenlandish, which language..is caught by them with..ease and partiality. Ibid., The necessity of earning their bread soon compels these children to have recourse to purely Greenlandish sources of gain, and to adopt Greenlandish customs. 1880A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. of Lang. II. viii. 218 The Latin distinction between ejus and suus is observed in Greenlandish. |
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