The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alemannic \Al`e*man"nic\, a. Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes.
Alemannic \Al`e*man"nic\, n. The language of the Alemanni.
The Swabian dialect . . . is known as the Alemannic.
--Amer. Cyc.
Wikipedia
Alemannic may refer to:
- Alemanni, a Germanic tribe of the first millennium
- Alemannic German, a dialect family in the Upper German branch of the German languages and its speakers
Usage examples of "alemannic".
It is almost as difficult to learn a dialect as a new language, and but for the key which the Alemannic gave me, I should have been utterly at sea.
Gelnhausen told his wretched bawdy tales and decanted clownish wisdom in three different dialects, for in the course of the war Stoffel had acquired the Westphalian and Alemannic stammer on top of his native Hessian.
He capped with a hundred caustic-degraded, once Alemannic stockingcaps, He in buckled shoes, in a linen smock: a hundred times He, coming and going.
His predilection for the stockingcap of the Alemannic peasant betokened his attachment to the simple life and the soil of his native Baden.
Aurelian had chosen these veteran troops, who were usually stationed on the Upper Danube, and whose valor had been severely tried in the Alemannic war.
The large ruminant ruminates every word in the twelfth bay from the left: "The Alemannic Stockingcap is capping between Todtnau and Freidburg.