Nordic
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- adjective
- /ˈnɔrdɪk/
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nórdico
- She studied the Nordic languages to better understand their historical connections.
- Nordic walking
Examples
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Nordic walking is an exercise that can be used to work from the very lowest level of physical ability right up to competitive sport, through graduated progressions.
Academic text (2012) -
It's in some Nordic tongue.
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The term brand originally comes from brandr, the Nordic word for fire.
Academic text (2017) -
Bendtsen H. 1999. The Nordic prediction method for road traffic noise. Sci Total Environ 235(1-3):331-338.
Academic text (2012) -
We hiked past the start of the old ski jumps (fairly grown in with trees) and the team learned a little about the way college skiing used to be... with alpine, nordic, and ski jumping.
Blog text (13) -
I have been learning a few phrases in Nordic languages like Danish and Norwegian.
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The museum features artifacts that highlight the Nordic cultures of Northern Europe.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Nordic = north (transparent) = nord + ic
Formed from the combining form 'nord' (north) plus the adjective-forming suffix '-ic', so the meaning 'relating to the north/Scandinavia' is inferable by learners.
Etymology
Nordic comes from an old word meaning 'north' and the ending -ic means 'related to', so it first meant things of the far north; it was used for the languages of the north such as Old Norse, which is why Nordic today is used for the Scandinavian group of languages.