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From a Scandinavian source via Old French [26] bloat From a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse blautr (="soaked, soft from being cooked in liquid") [27] bloom "blossom of a plant," c. 1200, a northern word, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse blomi "flower, blossom". [28] blunder blundra (="shut one's eye") [29] boast Probably from ...
In a similar vein, there are many similar innovations in Germanic and Balto-Slavic that are far more likely areal features than traceable to a common proto-language, such as the uniform development of a high vowel (*u in the case of Germanic, *i/u in the case of Baltic and Slavic) before the PIE syllabic resonants *ṛ, *ḷ, *ṃ, *ṇ, unique ...
aquavit, "a clear Scandinavian liquor flavored with caraway seeds" [1] fjeld, "a barren plateau of the Scandinavian upland" [2] flense, "to strip of blubber or skin" [3] Ombudsman, “Ombudsmand” Window, “vindue” scrike, "shriek" [4] torsk, "codfish" [5] husband, “hus” is house in Danish, “bonde” is a type of farmer in Danish ...
However, from about AD 1500 onwards, Indo-European languages expanded their territories to North Asia , through Russian expansion, and North America, South America, Australia and New Zealand as the result of the age of European discoveries and European conquests through the expansions of the Portuguese, Spanish, French, English and the Dutch ...
Etymologically, like French numerals for 70, 80 and 90, they are based on a vigesimal system; in other words, the name of the number is based on how many times 20 it is. Thus, 60 is tres (short for tresindstyve , "3 times 20") and 50 is halvtreds (short for halvtredsindstyve , "2.5 times 20" or more literally "half-third times 20").
The modern descendants of the Old West Norse dialect are the West Scandinavian languages of Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, and the extinct Norn language of Orkney and Shetland, although Norwegian was heavily influenced by the East dialect, and is today more similar to East Scandinavian (Danish and Swedish) than to Icelandic and Faroese.
This is a list of English words borrowed from the Swedish language. aquavit, "a clear Scandinavian liquor flavored with caraway seeds" [1] fartlek, "endurance training in which a runner alternates periods of sprinting with periods of jogging" [2] gantelope, "gauntlet" [3]
Occitan (English: / ˈ ɒ k s ɪ t ən,-t æ n,-t ɑː n /; [12] [13] Occitan pronunciation: [utsiˈta, uksiˈta]), [a] also known as lenga d'òc (Occitan: [ˈleŋɡɒ ˈðɔ(k)] ⓘ; French: langue d'oc) by its native speakers, sometimes also referred to as Provençal, is a Romance language spoken in Southern France, Monaco, Italy's Occitan Valleys, as well as Spain's Val d'Aran in Catalonia ...