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Polabish, n.|pəʊˈlɑːbɪʃ| Also Polabisch. [ad. G. polabisch.] = Polab b.
1877A. H. Keane tr. Hovelacque's Sci. of Lang. 280 We may conclude this notice by mentioning the old dialects of the Elbe Slavonians, known by the name of Polabish, idioms now extinct, and whose scanty records, greatly affected by German influence, date from the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century. 1890W. R. Morfill Ess. on Importance of Study of Slavonic Lang. 15 The extinct Polabish, a language once spoken on the Elbe.., was restored from some fragments by Schleicher. 1908T. G. Tucker Introd. Nat. Hist. Lang. 226 Polabish, once spoken by Slavs on the lower Elbe, is now extinct. 1955Trans. Philol. Soc. 1954 87 Cornish and polabisch exist in a modern period but, for the present purpose, they naturally cannot rank as ‘modern’ since they are no longer spoken. |