Icelandish

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Icelandish

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From Middle English *Islandish, *Islondisch, equivalent to Iceland + -ish. Compare Dutch IJslands, German Isländisch, Danish islandsk, Icelandic íslenskur.

proper noun

rare Icelandic (North Germanic tongue; Iceland's official language). Some geographical manuscripts written in the Icelandish language in the fourteenth or fifteenth century, and based in part on the statement of the Abbot Nicholas of Thingeyre, who died in 1159 A.d., according to Storm, Werlauff, and Rafn, also bear early witness to the discovery of Vinland by Leif E
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adjective more Icelandish · most Icelandish

Icelandic (of or relating to the North Germanic language spoken in Iceland).
Icelandic (of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Iceland). And another Icelandish writer of the tenth century records that, about thirty years afterwards, a vessel with a mixed crew of Irishmen and Icelanders was carried off the west coast of Ireland by an easterly wind to this western land called in the record: "Great Ireland"; [...]
Icelandic (of, relating to, or originating from Iceland). Once a year His Excellency came to St. Petersburg, on leave of absence; but, according to the showing of the crusty cicerone, the young person of Icelandish extraction was as cold as the country of her birth, [...]

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@misc{icelandish_2026,
  title = {Icelandish},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/icelandish},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}