transdialectv.
/trɑːnzˈdʌɪəlɛkt//tranzˈdʌɪəlɛkt//trɑːnsˈdʌɪəlɛkt//transˈdʌɪəlɛkt/ rare.
transitive. To translate from one dialect into another.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > translate [verb (transitive)] > between dialects
transdialect1698
1698 Earl of Orrery Dr. Bentley's Diss. Examin'd 52 If some Copyer..thought that Ocellus's Physics would look better out of Doric than in it, and therefore transdialected 'em.
1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 331 The poems under the name of Orpheus were written in the Doric dialect, but have since been trans-dialected, or modernised.
1830 J. Douglas Truths Relig. (Notes) 361 The book of Job, appears to be the original Arabic of Job and his friends, ‘transdialected’, and amplified by Moses.
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