Romansh

Romansh [roh-mansh, -mahnsh] Examples noun

1. a group of three Rhaeto-Romanic dialects spoken in E Switzerland.Compare Ladin(def 2).

adjective

2. of or relating to Romansh.

Examples from the Web for romansh Historical Examples of romansh

Romansh, Italian, and French-speaking valleys were presently added to this valiant little republican group.

The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind

Herbert George Wells

Romansh, a corrupt Latin, holds its own to this day in the higher and remoter valleys of that canton.

The Story of Switzerland

Lina Hug

Word Origin and History for romansh Romansh

“Rhaeto-Romanic,” Latin-derived language spoken in the Grisons region of eastern Switzerland, 1660s, from Grisons Rumansch, from Late Latin Romanice “in Vulgar Latin” (see romance (n.)).