单词 | welsh english |
释义 | Welsh Englishn.adj. A. n. The English language as spoken and written in Wales, or by Welsh people.rare before 19th cent. ΚΠ 1549 J. Leland Laboryouse Journey sig. B.v All authors of Greke, Latyne, Frenche, Italian, Spanyshe, Bryttyshe, Saxonyshe, Walshe Englyshe, or Scottyshe. 1633 Match at Mid-night iv. i. sig. Gv Mol. Prethee read it. Sim. Mas, has writ it in Welch English, we had beene spoil'd else, for want of an interpreter. 1770 T. Price Let. 10 Mar. in J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile (1804) I. App. p. cclxvii I think I need not make any other apology for the Welsh English, and incorrectness you will find in all my letters, than to acquaint you that the enditer is the son of a poor Welshman. 1839 Corsair 7 Dec. 619/1 The difference between Welsh-English and French-English, and the evident contempt of each for the English of the other. 1893 H. Morley Eng. Writers X. 292 Fluellen is introduced also with his Welsh English and Welsh pedantry. 1910 R. Bayne in A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lit. VI. ii. xiii. 361 Songs in Welsh-English. 1984 A. R. Thomas in P. Trudgill Lang. in Brit. Isles xi. 178 The subject of Welsh English is inadequately documented, and it is not possible to decide how many of the varieties of English spoken in Wales are..structurally so differentiated that they might be considered as sub-varieties or dialects. 2003 B. Collins & I. M. Mees Pract. Phonetics & Phonol. 160 It is not surprising that Welsh English often has an echo of the old language about it. B. adj. 1. Designating a dictionary or similar word list in which Welsh words are followed by their translations in English. ΚΠ 1751 London Evening Post 30 July (advt.) New Printing by Subscription,..A British, or Welsh-English Dictionary: Containing many Thousand British Words more than any Welsh Dictionary hitherto published... By Thomas Richards. 1753 T. Richards Antiquæ Linguæ Britannicæ Thes. (title) Antiquæ Linguæ Britannicæ Thesaurus: being a British, or Welsh-English Dictionary. 1821 Cambro-Briton Nov. 41 Several dictionaries of the Welsh language have been published, the principal of which are Walters's English Welsh Dictionary, and the Welsh English one of Mr. Owen Pughe. 1917 A. B. Kroeger Guide to Study & Use Ref. Bks. (ed. 3) 54/2 The best Welsh-English dictionary, unfortunately now at a standstill. 1995 G. King Colloquial Welsh 265 (heading) Welsh-English glossary. 2. Of or relating to the English language as used by Welsh speakers or writers. Cf. Anglo-Welsh adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > of varieties of English north country1673 Mancunian1771 cockney1776 southernizing1861 Hiberno-English1864 Elizabethan1869 southernized1873 Welsh English1877 Norfolk1889 Tyneside1896 broguish1899 Anglo-Welsh1905 Oxford1928 Novocastrian1969 Konglish1975 Singlish1986 mockney1989 1877 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 668 How does it chance, if either race have great poetic gifts, that we have no Welsh-English poetry at all, and in Ireland only a few spirited Fenian ballads. 1949 D. Thomas Let. 23 Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 334 Dare I, in my Welsh-English voice, read any American poets to American audiences? 1991 Amer. Speech 66 408 Some features of Welsh English syntax. 2005 S. Elmes Talking for Brit. iv. 103 (Gloss.) Ciff, cyff: unwell, under the weather (Welsh English term, pronounced ‘kiff’). This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1549 |
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