Saint-Dominguois
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French saint-dominguois.
Adjective
[edit]- Synonym of Dominguan.
- 2002, Anthropological Linguistics:
- The first fluent speakers of such an early Saint-Dominguois/Haitian Creole could not have been those that Lefebvre considers the principal agents of creole genesis, namely, the African-bom adults who were being transported en masse to ...
Noun
[edit]Saint-Dominguois (plural Saint-Dominguois)
- Synonym of Dominguan.
- 1985, David Nicholls, Haiti In Caribbean Context, Springer, →ISBN, page 87:
- The colonial whites had, as a result, little loyalty towards the territory, recognising a common interest as planters or merchants but not as Saint-Dominguois.
- 1997, Albert Valdman, French and Creole in Louisiana, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 20:
- The Saint-Dominguois, many of whom were bilingual in French and Creole, would have shifted to French. The conditions for the emergence of a French-based Creole might have existed in the early stages of the Louisiana colony, at least in ...