zealandic

name

1. The dialect of Danish spoken in Zealand, island in the North Sea.

   “This "Danish" in fact reflected local dialects; a standard language did not yet exist. But a certain dominance of Zealandic forms is visible already in the late Middle Ages: the administrative, ecclesiastical and commercial center of Denmark lay on Zealand (Roskilde, Copenhagen), and a Zealandic chancery style (inspired by German and Latin syntax) was developing.”

   “Here it seems natural to pay attention to some North-east Zealandic names ending in -rum, viz. Wigarum, AEsarum (and Niartherum ?).”

   “...the extent of the deflectional changes varies among the dialects, Jutish always having gone the furthest, Scanian always the most conservative, with Zealandic taking an intermediate position.”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of Zeelandic, a language spoken in Zeeland, province of the Netherlands.

   “In Zealandic Dutch ben- is the stem for the present tense for all persons except for 3SG (is).”

   “Zealandic has a southern lexicon and there is no trace of a partially southern lexicon in Afrikaans.”

adj

1. Pertaining to the Danish island of Zealand.

   “At the same time he was able — outside the Church— to captivate entirely different audiences by discovering and exploiting the kind of language they understood and the subjects that appealed to them: students, artisans and, at political meetings, sometimes sailors and sometimes Zealandic farmers.”

   “But why had some Zealandic peasants suddenly become so involved in church discipline and more Gregorian than many Danish clerics of the time?”

   “Districts are mentioned in a royal charter from 1085 by which King Knud IV (r.1080–1086; later canonized) donated land in a number of Scanian and Zealandic districts to the cathedral chapter of Lund.”

2. Pertaining to the central standard Danish dialect.