Scandinavian
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Scandinavia + -an.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Scandinavian (plural Scandinavians)
- Someone from Scandinavia.
Translations[edit]
Adjective[edit]
Scandinavian (comparative more Scandinavian, superlative most Scandinavian)
- Of or relating to Scandinavia.
- 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
- The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
- (Of a language) Of or relating to the North Germanic family of languages to which Swedish, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Danish, Icelandic, and Faeroese belong.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
of or relating the North Germanic family of languages
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