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Pomeranian, a. (and n.)|pɒməˈreɪnɪən|
Also Pomoranian.
[f. Pomerania, name of the province, a. med.L. Pomerānia, f. Pomerānī a Slavonic tribe. (Ger. Pommern.).
The form Pomoranian, reflecting Pol. Pomorze ‘Pomerania’ (f. po ‘on’, morze ‘sea’) is used chiefly in linguistic writings.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Pomerania, a district on the south coast of the Baltic Sea in Germany and Poland (formerly a province of Prussia).
P. bream, a variety of bream (Abramis buggenhagii) supposed to be a hybrid between the Bream and the Roach. P. dog, a small dog of a variety characterized by a pointed muzzle, pricked ears, full eyes, and long thick silky hair, either black, white, or cream-coloured.
1760Mrs. Delany in Life & Corr. (1861) III. 604 A droll Pomeranian puppy. 1787Hunter in Phil. Trans. LXXVII. 265 The shepherd's Dog in Germany, called Pomeranian. 1865Couch Fishes Brit. Isl. IV. 42 Pomeranian Bream. 1880E. W. Hamilton Diary 23 June (1972) I. 21 It seems that Bismarck, though unwilling to ‘sacrifice a single Pomeranian soldier’ in the cause of Greece, will give Germany's moral support, at any rate, to a demonstration. 1884Day Fishes II. 194 Pomeranian bream... This gregarious fish, which is of a hardy nature, is found in many sluggish rivers, canals, ponds, broads, and lakes in this country. 1919G. B. Shaw Augustus does his Bit in Heartbreak House 235 The Colonel of the Pomeranian regiment which captured me. 1934Priebsch & Collinson German Lang. i. i. 11 The Western group [of the Slavonic languages]..includes..the Cassubian and almost extinct Slovinzian (brought by Lorentz under the collective name of Pomoranian) along the Baltic coast of Pomerania. 1935F. Lorentz in F. Lorentz et al. Cassubian Civilization 6 The whole Pomeranian language is divided into seventy-six dialects, which are, in many cases, very different from one another. 1955R. Jakobson Slavic Lang. (ed. 2) 2 These are the remnants of the Pomoranian group. 1957[see Kashube]. 1965G. Y. Shevelov Prehist. of Slavic 1 Pomoranian or Baltic Sl[avic] dialects of such Sl[avic] tribes as Vilci-Veletians, Obodrites, etc. 1972[see Kashube]. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVI. 867/1 Kashubian dialects (including Slovincian) are considered to be the remnants of a Pomeranian subgroup that belonged to the Lekhitic group.
B. n.
a. A native or inhabitant of Pomerania.
1870W. B. Ullathorne in C. Butler Vatican Council (1930) I. xii. 237 Then there was a Pomeranian, who gave..an interesting and pathetic account of the difficulties of religion in his country. 1919[see Kashube]. 1939[see Lech, Lekh n.5 and a.].
b. n. Short for Pomeranian dog.
1882Edna Lyall Donovan v, The handsome Pomeranian..his tail bristling with wrath.
c. The West Slavonic dialect of Pomerania, a subgroup of Lechitic, now represented only by Kashube (cf. Lechitic n. and a., Kashube).
1934[see kashube]. 1935F. Lorentz in F. Lorentz et al. Cassubian Civilization 5 Popular speech..is nowhere uniform... A classic instance of this is furnished by Cassubian, or, as it is more scientifically termed, Pomeranian. This language is divided into Northern Pomeranian and Southern Pomeranian. 1935T. Lehr-Splawinski in Ibid. iii. i. 347 The dialects spoken in the Middle Ages..by the ancestors of the modern Cassubians constituted an intermediate belt between the dialects of Pomeranian properly speaking and those of Polish. |