Curonian
Adjective
Meaning
Curonian (not comparable)
Of, from, or pertaining to Courland
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Examples
Balt mythology According to Balt legends, the playing of a girl giantess named Neringa on the seashore formed the Curonian Spit ("neria, nerge, neringia" means land which is diving up and down like a swimmer).
The dialect is divided into the Vidzeme variety, the Curonian variety and the Semigallian variety.
It has around convert of sandy coastline, of which only about convert face the open Baltic Sea and which is the shortest among the Baltic Sea countries ; the rest of the coast is sheltered by the Curonian sand peninsula.