translocaladj.
/transˈləʊkl/, /trɑːnsˈləʊkl/, /tranzˈləʊkl/, /trɑːnzˈləʊkl/, U.S. /trænzˈloʊk(ə)l/, /træn(t)sˈloʊk(ə)l/ 1. Grammar. In Germanic languages: (of a word, meaning, etc.) indicating or relating to movement from one place to another.
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1902 Jrnl. Germanic Philol. 4 86 Another chapter under the general head of syntactical function of individual word-meaning deals with ‘introlocal’ and ‘translocal’ verbs.
1916 C. N. Gould Syntax of At & Ana in Gothic, Old Saxon, & Old High German (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Chicago) 45 The phrase varies translocal constructions.
1946 F. T. Visser in Materials for Study Old Eng. Drama 19 63 In Old English, the translocal meaning was expressed by in with the accusative, and so distinguished from the intralocal meaning, which was expressed by in followed by the dative.
1983 Teaching German 16 53 Modifiers of place have three subclasses: 1) stationary and intralocal, elicited by wo, 2) directional toward, translocal, elicited by wohin, and 3) directional from (woher).
2. That transcends or goes beyond regional or national boundaries; not confined to a particular place.
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1922 W. Lippmann Public Opinion xviii. 290 Laws dealing with translocal affairs are rejected or accepted by the mass of Congressmen without creative participation of any kind.
1996 J. C. Schneider & P. T. Schneider Festival of Poor ix. 214 This chapter analyzes the fertility decline of artisans in relation to..a specific set of translocal social relations.
2015 W. Marshall in O. Patterson & E. Fosse Cultural Matrix iv. 173 Hip-hop's founding figures would inspire countless variations..inviting new participants into an increasingly translocal and mass-mediated youth culture.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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