zealandishhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zealandish_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZealandish, adj.
First published 2018

Zealandishadjective (& noun)

  1. 1684–
    Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Danish island of Zealand, its people, or its dialect. Also as n.: the dialect of Danish spoken in Zealand.
    1. 1684
      The Tail..was a quarter of a Sealandish Ell long.
      Philosophical Transactions (Royal Society) vol. 14 600
    2. 1866
      These system-makers partially admitted at least the great divisions of North-English and South-English, of Jutlandish and Sealandish, of East-Norse and West-Norse.
      G. Stephens, Old-Northern Runic Monuments vol. I. Introduction 32
    3. 1885
      He had been in that [Jutlandish] regiment and Prince Vilhelm himself said he preferred it to the Sealandish.
      Scandinavia August 209/1
    4. 1948
      The Zealandish names in -lev have arisen in connexion with a conquest after which the land of the island was divided between the invaders.
      Acta Philologica Scandinavica vol. 18 363
    5. 1997
      It is very different for people from Copenhagen..to understand people who speak Norwegian or Jutish dialects. Fortunately most speak Zealandish.
      Re: Scand. Visit in soc.culture.nordic 20 November (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 11 Jan. 2018)
    6. 2005
      Speakers who have been raised outside Copenhagen and the surrounding area of Zealand (including some Zealandish towns).
      H. Basbøll, Phonol. Danish i. 16

Zealandish, adj. was first published in June 2018.

Zealandish, adj. was last modified in December 2023.