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List of English words of Scandinavian origin

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.

English words of Scandinavian origin

English words of Danish origin

  • aquavit, "a clear Scandinavian liquor flavored with caraway seeds"
  • fjeld, "a barren plateau of the Scandinavian upland"
  • flense, "to strip of blubber or skin"
  • , "shriek"
  • torsk, "codfish"

English words of Norwegian origin

  • aquavit, "a clear Scandinavian liquor flavored with caraway seeds"
  • brisling, "sprat"
  • fjord, "a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes"
  • flense, "to strip of blubber or skin"
  • floe, "floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water"
  • gravlax, "salmon cured especially with salt, sugar, pepper, and dill and often additional ingredients (such as fennel, coriander, lime, and vodka or aquavit)"
  • klister, "a soft wax used on skis"
  • krill, "planktonic crustaceans and their larvae (order or suborder Euphausiacea and especially genus Euphausia) that constitute the principal food of baleen whales"
  • 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"
  • lefse, "a large thin potato pancake served buttered and folded"
  • lutefisk, "dried codfish that has been soaked in a water and lye solution before cooking"
  • , "gloom, darkness; c. 1300, myrke, from Old Norse myrkr 'darkness,' from Proto-Germanic *merkwjo, Danish mÇ¿rk 'darkness',"
  • , "dark, obscure, gloomy; mid-14c., from murk + -y,"
  • , "shriek"
  • 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"
  • slalom, "skiing in a zigzag or wavy course between upright obstacles (such as flags)"
  • 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"
  • torsk, "codfish"

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