dialectally

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English

Etymology

dialectal +‎ -ly

Adverb

dialectally (comparative more dialectally, superlative most dialectally)

  1. In a dialectal way.
    • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 136:
      [...] (though dialectally e.g. in Northern British English while is used like until in (71), so that ‘Iʼll wait while tomorrow afternoonʼ means ‘Iʼll wait until tomorrow afternoonʼ).

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