— dialectologic /duy'euh lek'tl oj"ik/ , dialectological , adj.
/duy'euh lek tol"euh jee/ , n. , pl. dialectologies for 2.
1. Ling. the study dealing with dialects and dialect features.
2. the linguistic features of a dialect or of the dialects of a language.
[ 1875-80; DIALECT + -O- + -LOGY ]