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Lusatian, n. and a.|l(j)uːˈseɪʃ(ɪ)ən|
[f. med.L. Lusatia + -an.]
A. n. A native or inhabitant of Lusatia, name of a former region of eastern Germany between the Elbe and the Oder; = Wend n. 1.
b. The West Slavic language spoken in Lusatia.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Lusatia or its inhabitants.
1555R. Eden tr. Martyr's Decades of Newe Worlde 290 The Slauon tounge..vsed of..the Bohemians, Lusacians, Silesians, Morauians, [etc.]. 1862R. G. Latham Elem. Compar. Philol. 766 Lusatian language. 1877A. H. Keane tr. Hovelacque's Sci. of Lang. 275 The Sorbian, or Sorabian, called also Wendic, or Lusatian comprises two distinct varieties, High and Low Sorbian. Ibid. 276 About the middle of the sixteenth century the Lusatian territory was twice as extensive as at present. 192119th Cent. May 894 We need only except Lessing, who was a Lusatian. 1933L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 60 One of these, Lusatian (Wendish, Sorbian), survives as a speech-island of some 30,000 persons in Upper Saxony. 1949Archivum Linguisticum I. i. 89 In view of the scarcity of Lusatian literature it is to be regretted that no selections have been supplied. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 158 Slavonic in Lusatia—it may be termed Sorbian or Lusatian as well as (Lusatian) Wendish—falls into two divergent dialect groups. |