Danism
English edit
Noun edit
Danism (plural Danisms)
- A distinctively Danish word or borrowing, linguistic feature, etc.
- 1875, The Quarterly review, page 458:
- Among the lights which guide our path through the obscurity of the Transition period, we may mention the Cursor Mundi as a work in which many Danisms are preserved, […]
- 2012, H. Logeman, A Commentary, critical and explanatory on the Norwegian text of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt its language, literary associations and folklore, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 49:
- […] it is not easy to see why the Danisms which are both more common and more natural, […]
[…] but concludes that "it is quite as likely that it is a Danism."