dialectal

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

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Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu.

Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.

Ancient Greek διά (diá)

Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.

Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti

Proto-Hellenic *légō

Ancient Greek λέγω (légō)

Ancient Greek διαλέγομαι (dialégomai)

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Hellenic *-tós

Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)

Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́λεκτος (dĭắlektos)bor.

Latin dialectoslbor.

Middle French dialectebor.

English dialect

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālislbor.

Old French -albor.

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Latin -ālis

Old French -elbor.

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Latin -ālisbor.

Middle English -al

English -al

English dialectal

From dialect + -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪəˈlɛktəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: di‧a‧lec‧tal

Adjective

dialectal (comparative more dialectal, superlative most dialectal)

1. Of or relating to a dialect.
2. Peculiar to a (nonstandard) variety or lect.
   • 1908, “lay v.¹”, in James A. H. Murray et al., editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 1, London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 128:

     Now (exc. in Nautical language, see b) it is only dialectal or an illiterate substitute for lie, its identity of form with the past tense of the latter no doubt accounting largely for the confusion.

Derived terms

• adialectal
• bidialectal
• dialectality
• dialectally
• extradialectal
• interdialectal
• intradialectal
• monodialectal
• multidialectal
• non-dialectal
• nondialectal
• pandialectal
• semidialectal
• transdialectal

Related terms

• diachronic
• diaconnotative
• diaevaluative
• diafrequential
• diaintegrative
• diamedial
• diamesic
• dianormative
• diaphasic
• diastratic
• diatechnical
• diatextual
• diatopic

Translations

relating to a dialect

• Arabic: لَهْجِيّ (lahjiyy)
• Armenian: բարբառային (hy) (barbaṙayin)
• Asturian: dialeutal, dialectal
• Belarusian: дыяле́ктны (dyjaljéktny)
• Bulgarian: диале́ктен (dialékten)
• Catalan: dialectal
• Czech: nářeční (cs)
• Esperanto: dialekta
• Finnish: murteellinen (fi)
• French: dialectal (fr)
• Galician: dialectal m or f
• Georgian: დიალექტური (dialekṭuri), კილოკავური (ḳiloḳavuri)
• German: mundartlich (de), dialektal (de), dialektisch (de)
• Hungarian: nyelvjárási (hu)
• Irish: canúnach
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} dialettale (it)
• Kazakh: диалектілік (dıyalektilik)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} in dialecto/^{(please verify)} in Dialecto
• Polish: dialektyczny (pl), dialektalny (pl), dialektowy
• Portuguese: dialetal (pt)
• Romanian: dialectal (ro)
• Russian: диале́ктный (ru) (dialéktnyj), диалекта́льный (ru) (dialektálʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: dualchainnteach
• Serbo-Croatian: nárječnī (sh), dijàlekatskī (sh), dijàlektnī (sh)
• Slovak: nárečový
• Spanish: dialectal (es)
• Swedish: dialektal (sv)
• Ukrainian: діале́ктний (dialéktnyj)
• Volapük: dialegik

peculiar to a dialect

• Catalan: dialectal
• Czech: dialektální, nářeční (cs)
• Finnish: omaperäinen (fi)
• Galician: dialectal m or f
• Irish: canúnach
• Polish: gwarowy (pl), dialektalny (pl)
• Portuguese: dialetal (pt)
• Russian: диале́ктный (ru) (dialéktnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: nárječnī (sh), dijàlekatskī (sh), dijàlektnī (sh)
• Spanish: dialectal (es)

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} dialectal (fr)
• Occitan: ^{(please verify)} dialectal (oc), ^{(please verify)} dialectau (oc)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} dialectal (ro)
• Sicilian: ^{(please verify)} dialittali

See also

• dialectical
• lectal

Further reading

• “dialectal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “dialect”, in Merriam-Webster Online, Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1996–present.
• “dialect”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “dialectal”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djalekˈtal/ [d̪ja.lekˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: dia‧lec‧tal

Adjective

dialectal (epicene, plural dialectales)

1. alternative form of dialeutal

Catalan

Etymology

From dialecte +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [di.ə.ləkˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [di.a.lekˈtal]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Hyphenation: di‧a‧lec‧tal

Adjective

dialectal m or f (masculine and feminine plural dialectals)

1. dialectal

Further reading

• “dialectal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “dialectal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “dialectal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “dialectal”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

French

Etymology

From dialecte +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dja.lɛk.tal/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Hyphenation: dia‧lec‧tal

Adjective

dialectal (feminine dialectale, masculine plural dialectaux, feminine plural dialectales)

1. dialectal

   Le lituanien comporte deux grands groupes dialectaux.

   Lithuanian consists of two large dialectal groups.

Derived terms

• continuum dialectal

Further reading

• “dialectal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Occitan

Alternative forms

• dialectau (Gascony, Limousin, Provençal)

Adjective

dialectal m (feminine singular dialectala, masculine plural dialectals, feminine plural dialectalas)

1. dialectal

Related terms

• dialècte

Portuguese

Adjective

dialectal m or f (plural dialectais)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of dialetal; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

Further reading

• “dialectal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

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Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu.

Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.

Ancient Greek διά (diá)

Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.

Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti

Proto-Hellenic *légō

Ancient Greek λέγω (légō)

Ancient Greek διαλέγομαι (dialégomai)

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Hellenic *-tós

Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)

Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́λεκτος (dĭắlektos)bor.

Latin dialectoslbor.

Middle French dialecte

French dialecte

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālislbor.

Old French -al

Middle French -al

French -al

French dialectalbor.

Romanian dialectal

Borrowed from French dialectal. By surface analysis, dialect + -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dialekˈtal/

Adjective

dialectal m or n (feminine singular dialectală, masculine plural dialectali, feminine/neuter plural dialectale)

1. dialectal

Declension

Declension of dialectal

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	dialectal		dialectală	dialectali	dialectale
	definite	dialectalul		dialectala	dialectalii	dialectalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	dialectal		dialectale	dialectali	dialectale
	definite	dialectalului		dialectalei	dialectalilor	dialectalelor

Related terms

• dialectalism

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

▲

Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu.

Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.

Ancient Greek διά (diá)

Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.

Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti

Proto-Hellenic *légō

Ancient Greek λέγω (légō)

Ancient Greek διαλέγομαι (dialégomai)

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Hellenic *-tós

Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)

Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́λεκτος (dĭắlektos)bor.

Latin dialectoslbor.

Spanish dialecto

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Spanish -al

Spanish dialectal

From dialecto + -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djaleɡˈtal/ [d̪ja.leɣ̞ˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: dia‧lec‧tal

Adjective

dialectal m or f (masculine and feminine plural dialectales)

1. dialectal

Derived terms

• dialectalmente

Further reading

• “dialectal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026