English - Etymology

Iceland +‎ -ic

English - Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ændɪk

English - Proper Noun

Icelandic

1. A North Germanic language, the national tongue of Iceland.
   • 2007: I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter

     Although it's hard for us to imagine, they see the pixels in a raw, uninterpreted fashion, and thus to them a TV screen is as drained of long-ago-and-far-away meaning as is, to you or me, a pile of fall leaves, a Jackson Pollock painting, or a newspaper article in Malagasy (my apologies to you if you speak Malagasy; in that case, please replace it by Icelandic — and don't tell me that you speak that language, too!).

Synonyms

• Icelandish

Translations

English - Adjective

Icelandic (comparative more Icelandic, superlative most Icelandic)

1. Of or relating to the North Germanic language spoken in Iceland.
2. Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Iceland.
3. Of, relating to, or originating from Iceland.

Synonyms

• Icelandish

Translations

English - See Also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Icelandic terms
• Appendix:Icelandic Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Icelandic

English - External Links

• Icelandic–English Dictionary from Webster’s Online Dictionary
• ISO 639-1 code is, ISO 639-3 code isl
• Ethnologue entry for Icelandic, is
• Icelandic Wikipedia "Íslenska"
• Icelandic Wiktionary

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