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Polabian, n. and a.|pəʊˈleɪbɪən|
[f. as prec. + -ian.]
A. n. = prec.B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Polabs or their language.
1866Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 767/1 The Polabians never attained any distinct political footing. 1888[see Lechish n. and a.]. 1891Max Müller Sci. Lang. I. vii. 270 The Polabian dialect became gradually extinct at the beginning of the last century. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXI. 902/1 Polabian agrees mostly with Polish and Kašube with its nasalized vowels and highly palatalized consonants. 1925P. Radin tr. Vendryès's Language 287 Polabian has been absorbed into German, as Cornish into English. 1929[see Lech, Lekh n.5 and a.]. 1934O. Jespersen Language vi. 117 The now extinct Polabian language. 1939–40,1950[see Lechitic n. and a.]. 1955R. Jakobson Slavic Lang. (ed. 2) 2 The last remnant of Polabian on the left bank of the lower Elbe..died out toward the middle of the eighteenth century, but is known through a few vocabulary lists and short texts recorded about 1700. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 157 A diminutive islet of Elbe Slavonic or Polabian (po ‘on’, Laba ‘Elbe’) lingered on into the first decades of the eighteenth century. It was situated just west of the Elbe in the Lüneburg Wendland north of Salzwedel. |