List of English words of Norwegian origin
- List of English words of Norwegian origin
Some words from the Norwegian language have entered into common English usage. Many of the words relate to the climate and culture of Norway, or skiing. In total English language has about 600 loanwords from Scandinavian languages.
Not all of these words are definitely from Norwegian. They may be from other Scandinavian languages such as Danish or Swedish, or may come from Old Norse when it was a single language.
* Aquavit (also "akevitt", a kind of distilled spirit)
* Brisling (small, herring-like, marine fish)
* Fjord (a long indentation of a sea)
* Floe (as in ice floe, a river ice slide)
* Klister (a kind of ski wax, from the word for glue or paste; also common Scandinavian)
* Kraken (giant octopus, or giant squid)
* Krill (small shrimp-like animal)
* Lefse (Norwegian potato flatbread similar to a tortilla)
* Lemming ("lemen", a rodent species)
* Lutefisk (fish course made from dried fish and "lut" (lye).
* Quisling (a traitor, from "Vidkun Quisling")
* Skare (a kind of ski wax, from the Norwegian word for snow crust)
* Ski (equipment for skiing activities; originally a general word for a plank or chop of wood)
* Skrei (From a word meaning "flock" or "crowd", large nomadic codfish)
* Slalom ("slalåm"; not too steep downhill skiing with many gates and turns)
* Telemark (a type of ski turn or style of skiing named for the Telemark region in Norway)
* Uff da (mild expletive, can also be spelled "oofda", "ufda", "oofta" and "ufta")
* Yngling (sailing boat class, from the Norwegian word for "youngster")
See also
* Lists of English words of international origin
* List of English words of Swedish origin
* List of English words of Scandinavian origin
* List of English words of Old Norse origin
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