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English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈnʌn.ə.tæk/, /ˈnuː.nə.tæk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Hyphenation: nun‧a‧tak
Noun
[edit]nunatak (plural nunataks or nunataker)
- A mountain top or rocky element of a ridge that is surrounded by glacial ice but is not covered by ice; a peak protruding from the surface ice sheet. [from 1870s]
- 1922, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913[1], volume 2, Constable and Company Ltd., page 365:
- We made for a slope close to the end of the island or nunatak, where Shackleton must have got up also; it is obviously the only place when you look at it from a commanding rise.
- 2008, Andrea M. J. Coronato, Fernando Coronato, Elizabeth Mazzoni, Miriam Vásquez, “The Physical Geography of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego”, in J. Rabassa, editor, The Late Cenozoic of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego[2], Elsevier, →ISBN, page 45:
- Only a few lichens and mosses colonize the rocky walls of cirques and nunataks.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 155:
- The peak in whose lee you have chosen to set up your command post is far too regular in shape to be the nunatak you imagine it.
Translations
[edit]mountaintop surrounded by glacial ice
See also
[edit]Further reading
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[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]nunatak
Declension
[edit]Declension of nunatak
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | nunatak | nunatakken | nunatakker | nunatakkerne |
genitive | nunataks | nunatakkens | nunatakkers | nunatakkernes |
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]nunatak m (plural nunataks)
Further reading
[edit]- “nunatak”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nunatak m inan
Declension
[edit]Declension of nunatak
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | nunatak | nunataki |
genitive | nunataka/nunataku | nunataków |
dative | nunatakowi | nunatakom |
accusative | nunatak | nunataki |
instrumental | nunatakiem | nunatakami |
locative | nunataku | nunatakach |
vocative | nunataku | nunataki |
Further reading
[edit]- nunatak in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]nunatak n (plural nunatakuri)
Declension
[edit]Declension of nunatak
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) nunatak | nunatakul | (niște) nunatakuri | nunatakurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) nunatak | nunatakului | (unor) nunatakuri | nunatakurilor |
vocative | nunatakule | nunatakurilor |
References
[edit]- nunatak in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Slovak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nunatak m inan
Declension
[edit]Declension of nunatak
Further reading
[edit]- “nunatak”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Swedish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nunatak c
Declension
[edit]Declension of nunatak | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | nunatak | nunataken | nunataker | nunatakerna |
Genitive | nunataks | nunatakens | nunatakers | nunatakernas |
References
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