nunatak
English
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation
Noun
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, Volume 2, Constable and Company Ltd. (1922), 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 The Late Cenozoic of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego (ed. J. Rabassa), Elsevier (2008), →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, p. 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.
- 1922, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913, Volume 2, Constable and Company Ltd. (1922), page 365:
Translations
mountaintop surrounded by glacial ice
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Danish
Etymology
Noun
nunatak
Declension
Declension of nunatak
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | nunatak | nunatakken | nunatakker | nunatakkerne |
genitive | nunataks | nunatakkens | nunatakkers | nunatakkernes |
Slovak
Etymology
From Greenlandic nunataq.
Noun
nunatak m (genitive singular nunataka, nominative plural nunataky, genitive plural nunatakov, declension pattern of dub)
Declension
Declension of nunatak
Swedish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation
Noun
nunatak c
Declension
Declension of nunatak | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | nunatak | nunataken | nunataker | nunatakerna |
Genitive | nunataks | nunatakens | nunatakers | nunatakernas |
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