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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]
Languages and cultures with more specific kinship terminology than English may distinguish between paternal grandparents and maternal grandparents. For example, in the Swedish language there is no single word for "grandmother"; the mother's mother is termed mormor and the father's mother is termed farmor. [5]
This list excludes words borrowed directly from Old Norse; for those, see list of English words of Old Norse origin. English words of Scandinavian origin [ edit ]
Lagom is most often used as an adverb, as in the sentence "Han är lagom lång" (literally ' He is just the right height '). Lagom can also be used as an adjective: "Klänningen var lagom för henne" (literally ' The dress was just right for her '), which would be equivalent to ' The dress fits her '.
allvarlig - serious; andra - others; anledning - reason; ansikte - face; år - year; arbete - work; barn - child/kid; berättelse - story; bil - car; bok - book
Seth Nyquist was born in Toronto, where he grew up with his adoptive mother, English professor Mary Nyquist, and his sister. [2] [3] [4] He was in a foster home initially and then got adopted by a Swedish family. "Mormor" is a reference to his grandmother, the word meaning "grandmother" in Swedish. [5]
Svenska Akademiens ordbok (Swedish: [ˈsvɛ̂nːska akadɛˈmiːns ˈûːɖbuːk]), abbreviated SAOB, is a historical dictionary of the Swedish language published by the Swedish Academy. It is the Swedish counterpart of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) or the Deutsches Wörterbuch (DWB). Work on the dictionary started in 1787.
These words don't really come from Swedish -they had common Germanic origins with English. It could be just as easily argued that window comes from Danish "vindue". Besides -the Swedish word in use nowadays is "fönster". They are not from Swedish. "Window" and "thorpe" are from Old Norse, The predecessor to Modern Swedish, but a different ...