Danism

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noun

A distinctively Danish word or borrowing, linguistic feature, etc.

Scrabble 9

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nounDanism (plural Danisms)

plural Danisms

  1. A distinctively Danish word or borrowing, linguistic feature, etc.

    […] 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."

    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
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    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, […]

    1875, The Quarterly review, page 458

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