List of English words of Scandinavian origin
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Template:Short description Template:Expand list This is a list of English words that are probably of modern Scandinavian origin. This list excludes words borrowed directly from Old Norse; for those, see list of English words of Old Norse origin.
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English words of Danish origin
- aquavit, "a clear Scandinavian liquor flavored with caraway seeds"[1]
- fjeld, "a barren plateau of the Scandinavian upland"[2]
- flense, "to strip of blubber or skin"[3]
- scrike, "shriek"[4]
- torsk, "codfish"[5]
English words of Norwegian origin
- aquavit, "a clear Scandinavian liquor flavored with caraway seeds"[6]
- brisling, "sprat"[7]
- fjord, "a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes"[8]
- flense, "to strip of blubber or skin"[9]
- floe, "floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water"[10]
- gravlax, "salmon cured especially with salt, sugar, pepper, and dill and often additional ingredients (such as fennel, coriander, lime, and vodka or aquavit)"[11]
- klister, "a soft wax used on skis"[12]
- krill, "planktonic crustaceans and their larvae (order or suborder Euphausiacea and especially genus Euphausia) that constitute the principal food of baleen whales"[13]
- lemming, "any of various small short-tailed furry-footed rodents (such as genera Lemmus and Dicrostonyx) of circumpolar distribution that are notable for population fluctuations and recurrent mass migrations"[14]
- lefse, "a large thin potato pancake served buttered and folded"[15]
- lutefisk, "dried codfish that has been soaked in a water and lye solution before cooking"[16]
- murk, "gloom, darkness; c. 1300, myrke, from Old Norse myrkr 'darkness,' from Proto-Germanic *merkwjo, Danish mǿrk 'darkness',"[17]
- murky, "dark, obscure, gloomy; mid-14c., from murk + -y,"[18]
- scrike, "shriek"[19]
- ski, "one of a pair of narrow strips of wood, metal, or plastic curving upward in front that are used especially for gliding over snow"[20]
- slalom, "skiing in a zigzag or wavy course between upright obstacles (such as flags)"[21]
- telemark, "a turn in skiing in which the outside ski is advanced considerably ahead of the other ski and then turned inward at a steadily widening angle until the turn is complete"[22]
- torsk, "codfish"[23]
See also
- List of English words of Old Norse origin
- Lists of English words by country or language of origin
- List of English words of Swedish origin
References
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