traditioneellijke

Traditioneellijke is a historical spelling variant of the Dutch adjective meaning traditional or pertaining to tradition. In contemporary Dutch the standard forms are traditioneel for masculine or neuter nouns and traditionele for feminine or plural nouns. The form traditioneellijke appears mainly in older texts, especially in Early Modern Dutch, and is now regarded as obsolete or dialectal. It reflects older orthographic practices in which the sequence -eellijk was used to form adjectives with a meaning similar to -elijk.

The usage of traditioneellijke is typically found in descriptive, historical, or literary contexts, where authors discuss long-standing customs, practices, or arts. Because Dutch orthography has undergone reforms that standardized spelling, today one would generally substitute traditioneel or traditionele depending on the noun. For example, a modern equivalent would be traditionele gewoonten or tradities, rather than traditioneellijke gewoontes.

In scholarly writing about the history of the Dutch language, traditioneellijke may appear when describing archaic texts or regional spellings. The term thus serves more as a historical or philological reference than as a living part of contemporary Dutch vocabulary. Related terms include traditioneel, tradition, and discussions of Dutch orthography reforms that clarified and regularized modern spellings.