Kashube
(kəˈʃuːb)
Also Kashub, Kaszube.
[f. Kashubia (Pol. Kaszuby), a region of Poland west and north-west of Gdansk.]
a. A member of the Slavonic people inhabiting Kashubia. b. The Slavonic language spoken in this region. Also attrib. or as adj. So Caˈssubian, Kaˈshubian, Kaˈshubish, Kaˈssubian ns. and adjs.
| 1893 W. R. Morfill Poland i. 13 The language of the Kashubes differs in some interesting points from the Polish, having a fluctuating accent..and more nasal sounds. 1919 A. B. Boswell Poland & the Poles 14 The original Pomeranians were absorbed by German colonists. But in the region west of the Vistula there still dwells a tribe called the Kaszubes who are descended from them... This region of Pomerania..is known to the Poles as the Kaszubian Switzerland. Ibid. 26 Lower Polish dialects..Kaszubian. 1934 Priebsch & Collinson German Lang. i. i. 11 The Cassubian and almost extinct Slovinzian (brought by Lorentz under the collective name Pomoranian). 1935 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Aug. 506/2 A Slav language, called sometimes Slovincian and sometimes Cassubian. 1936 Discovery Mar. 95/1 The Cassubians are an ancient and peculiar tribe who live on the seashore on both sides of the German-Polish frontier line. 1950 A. P. Goudy in Cambr. Hist. Poland i. 9 From the linguistic point of view Slovinzish and Kashubish belong to the Polish group. 1950 [see Lechitic n. and a.]. 1955 Archivum Linguisticum VII. 133 The accent is free in North Kashubian. 1957 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 293 Kashubes, a Slavonic people living in the northwest of Poland. Ibid, In Kashube, as against Polish, all vowels can be nasal instead of a and e only. Ibid. XVIII. 152/1 Linguistically..two local Pomeranian dialects remained until the 20th century, the Slovince (Slowinski) and the Cassubian (Kaszubski). 1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-Europ. Lang. 158 The present territory of these Pomeranian Slavs, Kashubs as they call themselves, comprises no more than the north-eastern tip from Lake Leba to the southern outskirts of Gdynja (Gdingen). Its southern border is ill-defined, being followed by a broad band of transitional dialects, basically Kashubian, but already highly polonised. |