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Lechitic, n. and a.|lɛˈxɪtɪk|
Also Lechite, Lekhite, Lekhitic.
[ad. G. lechitisch; cf. med.L. Le(n)chitae and Lech n.5 and a.]
Name given by some linguists to certain West Slavonic languages (Polish, Kashubian, Slovincian, the extinct Polabian) showing characteristic features in common and sometimes held to have once formed a single sub-dialect within the Slavonic group. Also as adj., of or pertaining to the Lechs or their language. Also comb. form Lechito-, Lekhito-. Cf. prec.
1934G. C. Engerrand So-called Wends of Germany (Univ. of Texas Bull. No. 3417) 35 Its Western subgroup..is composed of the Polish, Kashub-Slovince, former Polab, Wendish.., Czech, and Slovak languages. If we eliminate the three latter ones from that subgroup, we have a family, to which philologists give the name of Lechitic (L'Ach, Lekhite, etc.), that is characterized by the persistency of many old Slavic nasals. 1935Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Aug. 506/2 Like most of the Polish Slav philologists of the last two generations, he [sc. T. Lehr-Spławiński] holds the theory of a Lechitic linguistic community, that is to say, that all the Slav languages of the Baltic region from Polish in the east to Dravanian on the west bank of the Elbe constituted an unbroken chain of mutually related groups. 1939–40Slavonic & East European Rev. XIX. 273 Schleicher states that Kashubian stands as a bridge between the West Lechite (Polabian) and East Lechite (Polish). 1946–7Ibid. XXV. 493 Shakhmatov sees in this signs of an intermingling of certain Lechitic tribes with the Russians in North Russia. 1949–50Ibid. XXVIII. 286 The Poles, as the most conservative and least mobile of the Western (Lechitic) tribes, stayed behind in the original habitat. 1950A. P. Goudy in Cambr. Hist. Poland to 1696 i. 9 From the linguistic point of view Slovinzish and Kashubish belong to the Polish group and it is usual to class these languages (or dialects) along with Polish and Polabian under the title Lechitic (grupa lechicka). 1964M. Samilov The Phoneme jat' in Slavic 144 In Lekhitic the nasals have generally preserved their nasality. 1966H. Birnbaum Ancient Indo-European Dialects 194 The dissociation of..the West Slavs into a Lekhito-Sorbian group..and a Czechoslovak group. 1972G. Stone Smallest Slavonic Nation 96 I. Taszycki's view that West Slavonic had first divided into two sub-groups—Lechito-Sorbian and Czecho-Slovak—was subsequently supported by Zdzisław Stieber. |