Icelandic

English

Etymology

Iceland +‎ -ic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɪsˈlændɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ændɪk

Noun

Icelandic (countable and uncountable, plural Icelandics)

1. (uncountable) A North Germanic language, the national tongue of Iceland.
   • 2007, Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop:

     Although it's hard for us to imagine, they see the pixels in a raw, uninterpreted fashion, and thus to them a TV screen is as drained of long-ago-and-far-away meaning as is, to you or me, a pile of fall leaves, a Jackson Pollock painting, or a newspaper article in Malagasy (my apologies to you if you speak Malagasy; in that case, please replace it by Icelandic — and don't tell me that you speak that language, too!).

2. (countable) A native or inhabitant of Iceland; an Icelander.
3. (countable) An Icelandic horse.

Synonyms

• Icelandish

Translations

language

• Arabic: أَيْسْلَنْدِيّ (ʔayslandiyy)
• Armenian: իսլանդերեն (hy) (islanderen)
• Asturian: islandés (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: islandca
• Basque: islandiera (eu)
• Belarusian: ісла́ндская мо́ва (islándskaja móva), ісла́ндская (islándskaja)
• Bengali: আইসল্যান্ডিক (aiśolênḍik)
• Bulgarian: исла́ндски (islándski)
• Catalan: islandès (ca) m

  Valencian: islandés (ca) m

• Cherokee: ᎢᏍᎳᏅᏗ (islanvdi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰島語／冰岛语 (zh) (Bīngdǎoyǔ), 冰岛语 (zh) (Bīngdǎoyǔ)

• Czech: islandština (cs) f
• Danish: islandsk (da)
• Dutch: IJslands (nl) n
• Esperanto: la islanda
• Estonian: islandi keel
• Faroese: íslendskt (fo) n
• Finnish: islanti (fi)
• French: islandais (fr) m
• Galician: islandés (gl) m
• Georgian: ისლანდიური (islandiuri), ისლანდიური ენა (islandiuri ena)
• German: Isländisch (de) n
• Greenlandic: islandimiusut
• Gujarati: આઇસલેન્ડિક f (āisalenḍik)
• Hawaiian: ʻōlelo ʻĀina Hau
• Hebrew: איסלנדית f
• Hungarian: izlandi (hu)
• Icelandic: íslenska (is) f
• Indonesian: bahasa Islandia (id)
• Irish: Íoslainnis f
• Italian: islandese (it) m
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• Japanese: アイスランド語 (ja) (あいすらんどご, Aisurandogo)
• Khmer: ភាសាអាយឡែន (pʰiesaa aaylaen)
• Korean: 아이슬란드어 (ko) (aiseullandeueo)
• Latin: lingua Islandica f
• Latvian: islandiešu
• Limburgish: Ieslands
• Low German: Ieslandsch (nds) n, Ieslannsch (nds) n

  German Low German: Ieslännsch n

• Navajo: Tin Dineʼé bizaad
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: islandsk (no) m

  Nynorsk: islandsk (nn) m

• Occitan: islandés (oc) m
• Old English: Īslendisc
• Persian: ایسلندی (fa) (islandi)
• Polish: islandzki (pl)
• Portuguese: islandês (pt) m
• Romanian: islandez (ro)
• Russian: исла́ндский (ru) (islándskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: Tìlis f
• Serbo-Croatian: islandski (sh)
• Slovak: islandčina (sk) f
• Slovene: islándščina (sl) f
• Spanish: islandés (es)
• Swahili: Kiaisilandi
• Swedish: isländska (sv) c
• Tagalog: Islandes
• Telugu: ఐస్లాండిక్ (aislāṇḍik)
• Tigrinya: አይስላንደኛ (ʾäysəlandäña)
• Turkish: İzlandaca (tr)
• Ukrainian: ісландський (uk) (islandsʹkyj)
• Volapük: Lisladeänapük (vo)

Icelander — see Icelander

Icelandic horse — see Icelandic horse

Adjective

Icelandic (comparative more Icelandic, superlative most Icelandic)

1. Of or relating to the North Germanic language spoken in Iceland.
2. Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Iceland.
3. Of, relating to, or originating from Iceland.
   • 2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Despite of the absence of Shaun Derry and Adel Taarabt because of illness and injury respectively, the home side began superbly. Helguson twice threatened early on with shots from the right-hand corner of the box before Anton Ferdinand spurned a great chance at the back post following the Icelandic striker's header back across goal.

Synonyms

• Icelandish

Derived terms

• Icelandic horse
• Icelandicness

Translations

of or relating to the Icelandic language

• Armenian: իսլանդերեն (hy) (islanderen)
• Asturian: islandés (ast)
• Belarusian: ісла́ндскі (islándski)
• Esperanto: islanda
• Faroese: íslendskt (fo) n
• Galician: islandés (gl)
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• Georgian: ისლანდიური (islandiuri)
• German: isländisch (de)
• Portuguese: islandês (pt)
• Scottish Gaelic: Tìleach
• Tagalog: Islandes
• Volapük: Lisladeänapükik

of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Iceland

• Armenian: իսլանդական (hy) (islandakan)
• Belarusian: ісла́ндскі (islándski)
• Esperanto: islandana
• Finnish: islantilainen (fi)
• Galician: islandés (gl) m
• Georgian: ისლანდიური (islandiuri)
• German: isländisch (de)
• Irish: Íoslannach
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: islandsk (no)

  Nynorsk: islandsk (nn)

• Portuguese: islandês (pt) m
• Scottish Gaelic: Tìleach
• Tagalog: Islandes
• Volapük: (♂♀) Lisladeänanik, (♂) hi-Lisladeänanik, (♀) ji-Lisladeänanik

of or relating to Iceland

• Armenian: իսլանդական (hy) (islandakan)
• Asturian: islandés (ast)
• Basque: islandiar
• Belarusian: ісла́ндскі (islándski)
• Catalan: islandès (ca) m, islandesa (ca) f

  Valencian: islandés (ca) m, islandesa (ca) f

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰島的／冰岛的 (zh), 冰岛的 (zh) (Bīngdǎo de)

• Czech: islandský (cs) m
• Danish: islandsk (da)
• Dutch: IJslands (nl)
• Esperanto: islanda
• Estonian: islandi
• Faroese: íslendskur
• Finnish: islantilainen (fi)
• French: islandais (fr)
• Galician: islandés (gl)
• Georgian: ისლანდიური (islandiuri)
• German: isländisch (de)
• Hebrew: איסלנדית f, איסלנדי m
• Hungarian: izlandi (hu)
• Icelandic: íslenskur (is), frónskur
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• Irish: Íoslannach
• Italian: islandese (it)
• Japanese: アイスランドの (ja) (Aisurando no)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: islandsk (no)

  Nynorsk: islandsk (nn)

• Occitan: islandés (oc)
• Persian: ایسلندی (fa) (islandi)
• Polish: islandzki (pl)
• Portuguese: islandês (pt)
• Romanian: islandez (ro)
• Russian: исла́ндский (ru) (islándskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: Tìleach
• Slovak: islandský (sk)
• Slovene: islándski (sl)
• Spanish: islandés (es)
• Swedish: isländsk (sv), isländskt (sv) n, isländska (sv) pl
• Tagalog: Islandes
• Turkish: İzlanda (tr)
• Volapük: Lisladeänik (vo)
• West Frisian: Yslânsk (fy)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Icelandic terms
• Appendix:Icelandic Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Icelandic

Further reading

• “Icelandic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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• Icelandic Wikipedia "Íslenska"
• Icelandic Wiktionary