Synonyms for dialectal


Grammar : Adj
Spell : dahy-uh-lek-tl
Phonetic Transcription : ˌdaɪ əˈlɛk tl


Définition of dialectal

Origin :
  • 1831, from dialect + -al (1).
  • adj regional
Example sentences :
  • As to dialectal idioms or lingual peculiarities, I had not, of course, the most remote idea.
  • Extract from : « The Round Towers of Ireland » by Henry O'Brien
  • But, as a matter of fact, nearly all our chief writers have recognised the value of dialectal words.
  • Extract from : « English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day » by Walter W. Skeat
  • In this long list, filling 80 columns, the dialectal words are marked with a dagger .
  • Extract from : « English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day » by Walter W. Skeat
  • They must certainly have been looked upon, at the first, as being rustic or dialectal.
  • Extract from : « English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day » by Walter W. Skeat
  • The word is a compound of inter, between, and lope, a dialectal variant of “leap.”
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 6 » by Various
  • Drs Seler and Schellhas believe im to be the radical of imix and imox, which are dialectal variations of the same word.
  • Extract from : « Day Symbols of the Maya Year » by Cyrus Thomas
  • Not until the year 1,000, or the beginning of the 11th Century, do dialectal differentiations seem to be fully developed.
  • Extract from : « Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch » by George Tobias Flom
  • Literary style except in Southern Leyte and Bohol where it is colloquial (with the dialectal prefix a- substituting for paga-).
  • Extract from : « A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan » by John U. Wolff
  • Some of them probably heard the jests at the expense of their dialectal peculiarities which Plautus introduced into his comedies.
  • Extract from : « The Common People of Ancient Rome » by Frank Frost Abbott
  • The Middle English was pre-eminently the Dialectal period of the language.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 » by Various

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