Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A native or inhabitant of Kashubia.
  • noun A person of Kashubian ancestry.
  • noun The West Slavic language of the Kashubians.

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  • adjective Of or relating to the Kashubian people and their language.
  • proper noun A Slavic language spoken in the Pomeranian region of Poland.
  • noun A member of the Kashubian people.

Etymologies

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From Kashube +‎ -ian.

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Examples

  • Please note that the correct code for the language Kashubian is csb, NOT csh.

    MARC Language Codes David Bigwood 2005

  • Please note that the correct code for the language Kashubian is csb, NOT csh.

    Archive 2005-01-30 David Bigwood 2005

  • The Kaszubes are a real ethnic group with a website and everything--sometimes called Kashubian.

    Archive 2004-08-01 2004

  • The Kaszubes are a real ethnic group with a website and everything--sometimes called Kashubian.

    Naming Names 2004

  • All I can remember of it is that after a brief outline of the economic conditions in the Kashubian hinterland I started in on pillages and massacres with a vengeance.

    Nobel Lecture - Literature 1999 1999

  • My mother's favourite cousin, like her a Kashubian by birth, worked at the Polish post office of the Free City of Danzig.

    Nobel Lecture - Literature 1999 1999

  • The Kashubian tales again would naturally be pressed into the service of the surrounding

    Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources 1889

  • He next goes on to the Kashubian, a rapidly-perishing sub-dialect of Polish, and then to the Polish tongue itself.

    Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources 1889

  • Illyrian-Slovenish of Carinthia, though, in locality, least distant from Bohemia, exhibits forms most removed from the Bohemian language, just as the Upper Lusatian is less allied to the Bohemian than is the locally-distant Kashubian.

    Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources 1889

  • The Kashubian Spell Checker helps you quickly check any word written in a text field or e-mail.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

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