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 Translation for 'dialect dictionary' from English to Slovak
NOUN   a dialect dictionary | dialect dictionaries
jazyk.
nárečový slovník {m}
dialect dictionary
Partial Matches
jazyk.
nárečie {n}
dialect
jazyk.
dialekt {m}
dialect
jazyk.
nárečový {adj}
dialect [attr.]
vydav.
slovník {m}
dictionary
jazyk.vydav.
slangový slovník {m}
slang dictionary
jazyk.vydav.
slovník {m} slangu
slang dictionary
jazyk.
normatívny slovník {m}
normative dictionary
jazyk.
frazeologický slovník {m}
phraseological dictionary
vreckový slovník {m}pocket dictionary
vydav.
knižný slovník {m}
printed dictionary
slovníkové heslo {n}dictionary entry
slovníkový {adj}dictionary [attr.]
pozrieť sa do slovníka [dok.]to consult a dictionary
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Usage Examples English
  • He was also instrumental in conceptualizing, designing and implementing the compilation of "A Telugu Dialect Dictionary of Occupational Vocabularies" in Andhra Pradesh, India, and so far over a dozen volumes covering different occupations and dialects have been published.
  • The term "Leeds Loiner" was included by Joseph Wright, a native of nearby Windhill and Wrose, in the "English Dialect Dictionary".
  • Watson finds the dialect word "troi", meaning a balance in Wright's "The English Dialect Dictionary".
  • Various compilations of these maps for England have been issued over the years, including Joseph Wright's "English Dialect Dictionary" (1896–1905), the "Survey of English Dialects" (1962–8), and "The Linguistic Atlas of England" (1978).
  • The following meaning of the word noggin also appears in the English Dialect Dictionary, ‘the clay and sticks, or bricks used to fill the interstices of half-timbered houses’.

  • Joseph Wright began his "English Dialect Dictionary" by saying "It is quite evident from the letters daily received at the 'Workshop' that pure dialect speech is rapidly disappearing from our midst, and that in a few years it will be almost impossible to get accurate information about difficult points."
  • In Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, it was listed as a North Country term and as obsolete.
  • It is listed, with an earliest instance in 1837, by Joseph Wright in his 1905 The English Dialect Dictionary.
  • The English Dialect Dictionary indicates references to "Wakefield" were often short for referring to the long-standing prison (e.g. "being sent to Wakefield" meant being sent to prison).
  • "The English Dialect Dictionary" published in 1904 lists "snotergob", "snot-gob" and "snotty-gobble" as "the fruit of the yew-tree, "Taxus baccata" noting that "children devour quantities of the red part of these berries, which they call snotty-gobbles, and suffer no ill-effects".

  • "Scots" is the modern preferred usage in all levels of society in Scotland, but occasional use of "Scotch" in varieties of the Scots language continues with terms such as "Scotch and English" (a game), "Scotch fiddle" (itchiness), "Scotch mile and ell" (measures) and many other examples (see the Scots Dialect Dictionary compiled by Alexander Warrack M.A.
  • This culminated in the production of the six-volume "English Dialect Dictionary" in 1905.
  • The term is probably derived from an earlier dialect term for a young pig: Wright's 19th-century "English Dialect Dictionary" notes "snorker" as a widespread word for a piglet, related to the word "snork", to grunt or snore.
  • It has also produced an interactive CD-ROM dialect dictionary, a set of voice recordings to be used in automotive navigation systems or personal navigation assistants, and an interactive internet banking portal for the Cologne Savings and Loan Association in Colognian language.
  • Joseph Wright's "English Dialect Dictionary" had included "shit" in 1905.

  • The regional dialects of England were once extremely varied, as is recorded in Joseph Wright's "English Dialect Dictionary" and the Survey of English Dialects, but they have died out over time so that regional differences are now largely in pronunciation rather than in grammar or vocabulary.
  • The Scots Dialect Dictionary, first published 1911 by Chambers and compiled by the lexicographer Alexander Warrack, gives the following; “deil’s beef-tub n.
  • The Yorkshire society is the oldest of the county dialect societies; it grew out of the committee of workers formed to collect material for the "English Dialect Dictionary".
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