Danism

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Danism (plural Danisms)

  1. A distinctively Danish word or borrowing, linguistic feature, etc.
    • 1875, The Quarterly review, page 458:
      Among the lights which guide our path through the obscurity of the Transition period, we may mention the Cursor Mundi as a work in which many Danisms are preserved, []
    • 2012, H. Logeman, A Commentary, critical and explanatory on the Norwegian text of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt its language, literary associations and folklore, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 49:
      [] it is not easy to see why the Danisms which are both more common and more natural, []
      [] but concludes that "it is quite as likely that it is a Danism."

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