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Icelandic

Icelandic

8.5
The language people in Iceland speak
  • noun
  • /aɪsˈlændɪk/
translation icon : islandés
  • The phrase 'takk fyrir' is a common way to say thank you in Icelandic.

And I put a screenshot of my Spotify where I was, it was just the lyrics were all Icelandic.

Examples

  • In Icelandic, the word for 'friend' is 'vinur'.

  • The word Saturday Lugardach in Icelandic means pool day or hot spring day.

  • And that's today's jork, which is an Icelandic word meaning joke about Bjork.

  • Many tourists learn a few basic phrases in Icelandic before visiting the country.

Compounds

Icelandic krona
5.7

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

Old Icelandic
9.9

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

Surface Forms

Icelandic singular
Icelandics plural

Etymology

Icelandic comes from Iceland, which is ice + land and means 'ice land'. The ending -ic means 'of or relating to', so Icelandic as a noun names the language of that country.