Mecklenburgish

English

Etymology

From Mecklenburg +‎ -ish, possible after German mecklenburgisch/Mecklenburgisch.

Proper noun

Mecklenburgish

1. The variety of Low German which is spoken in Mecklenburg.

   Synonym: Mecklenburg dialect

   • 1891, Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and Language, volume 29, entry "PLATT":

     It has various local dialects, as Mecklenburgish, East-Frisian, etc.

   • 2013, Charles Russ, The Dialects of Modern German: A Linguistic Survey, Routledge, →ISBN, page 98:

     In spite of the uniformity of Mecklenburgish, regional differences also occur, such as those between east and west. Here the differences point to a two-part structural division of Mecklenburgish, which in former times was much stronger. In the east, the vowel series MLG […]

   • 2018, Kurt Goblirsch, Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening: Volume 157: On the History of Quantity in Germanic, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 7:

     The first is a large area in Low Saxon and Mecklenburgish in northern Low German, while the second is a smaller one in Ripuarian and bordering Mosel Franconian.

Translations

Low German variety

• German: mecklenburgische Mundart f, Mecklenburgisch n (note: often the broader term Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch is used)

Adjective

Mecklenburgish (not comparable)

1. From or pertaining to Mecklenburg, its inhabitants, or their dialect.
   • 1853 September 22, C. Hansen of Brooklyn, New York, in a letter published in 1854 in the Congressional Edition, volume 692 / 712, page 762:

     The we take the Russians, Prussians, Danish, [...] the Hanse Towns, Hanoverians, Oldenburgish, Mecklenburgish, and Lubeckish ships, together, which cleared and entered the United States in 1848 to 1852

   • 1882, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Time, page 736:

     He is nothing if he is not Mecklenburgish; a son of the soil, he has remained true to the soil, whose very aroma he reproduces in his works.

Translations

Translations

• German: mecklenburgisch (de)