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Icelandic

Icelandic

16 4.9
From Iceland or about its people and culture
  • adjective
  • /aɪˈklændɪk/
translation icon : islandés
  • And we've stopped for what I believe is traditional Icelandic food, A hot dog from the gas station.
  • Icelandic sagas
  • Icelandic society
  • Icelandic poetry

And so we're now planning a training of Icelandic therapists to take place the first week of August.

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Examples

  • The museum received its first human exhibit from a 95-year-old Icelandic man earlier this year.

    Blog text (31)
  • In their search for relief from daily pressures, moral authority, and guidance, Icelandic children turned to education.

    Academic text (1995)
  • All right, let's taste Icelandic chocolate cake.

  • One of them even worked writing software for the Icelandic financial industry until it collapsed.

    Blog text (14)
  • Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Icelandic Snow Owl.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Poverty was the norm in Icelandic rural society, and children's work could be crucial for the family economy.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Arguably, these three subjects substantially absorbed people's lives in Icelandic nineteenth-century society.

    Academic text (1995)
  • The weave, too, looked Scandinavian, nearly identical to that of the Icelandic sweaters.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Hannes confirms that Icelandic children utilized winter eve readings as a strategy for survival.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Many tourists enjoy traditional Icelandic cuisine, which includes a variety of seafood dishes.

Compounds

Money that people use in Iceland and that is written as ISK

An old form of the Norse language once spoken in Iceland until about 1600

Surface Forms

Icelandic positive

Morphology

Icelandic = Iceland (transparent) = Iceland + ic

Clear adjectival formation from the country name using the productive suffix '-ic'.

Etymology

Icelandic comes from Iceland, which is ice + land and means 'ice land'. The ending -ic means 'of or relating to', so Icelandic as an adjective describes people, culture, or things from Iceland.