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Kashube|kəˈʃuːb|
Also Kashub, Kaszube.
[f. Kashubia (Pol. Kaszuby), a region of Poland west and north-west of Gdansk.]
a. A member of the Slavonic people inhabiting Kashubia.
b. The Slavonic language spoken in this region. Also attrib. or as adj. So Caˈssubian, Kaˈshubian, Kaˈshubish, Kaˈssubian ns. and adjs.
1893W. R. Morfill Poland i. 13 The language of the Kashubes differs in some interesting points from the Polish, having a fluctuating accent..and more nasal sounds. 1919A. B. Boswell Poland & the Poles 14 The original Pomeranians were absorbed by German colonists. But in the region west of the Vistula there still dwells a tribe called the Kaszubes who are descended from them... This region of Pomerania..is known to the Poles as the Kaszubian Switzerland. Ibid. 26 Lower Polish dialects..Kaszubian. 1934Priebsch & Collinson German Lang. i. i. 11 The Cassubian and almost extinct Slovinzian (brought by Lorentz under the collective name Pomoranian). 1935Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Aug. 506/2 A Slav language, called sometimes Slovincian and sometimes Cassubian. 1936Discovery Mar. 95/1 The Cassubians are an ancient and peculiar tribe who live on the seashore on both sides of the German-Polish frontier line. 1950A. P. Goudy in Cambr. Hist. Poland i. 9 From the linguistic point of view Slovinzish and Kashubish belong to the Polish group. 1950[see Lechitic n. and a.]. 1955Archivum Linguisticum VII. 133 The accent is free in North Kashubian. 1957Encycl. Brit. XIII. 293 Kashubes, a Slavonic people living in the northwest of Poland. Ibid, In Kashube, as against Polish, all vowels can be nasal instead of a and e only. Ibid. XVIII. 152/1 Linguistically..two local Pomeranian dialects remained until the 20th century, the Slovince (Slowinski) and the Cassubian (Kaszubski). 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-Europ. Lang. 158 The present territory of these Pomeranian Slavs, Kashubs as they call themselves, comprises no more than the north-eastern tip from Lake Leba to the southern outskirts of Gdynja (Gdingen). Its southern border is ill-defined, being followed by a broad band of transitional dialects, basically Kashubian, but already highly polonised. |