Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
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 ]
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]
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]
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 ...
Alfapet was the original Swedish name for the popular word game Scrabble. An edition from the 1990s. The motto Det Klassiska Korsordsspelet means "The classic crossword puzzle game" A game of Alfapet played in Loviisa, Finland. In 1954, the Swedish board game company Alga was granted a license by J. W. Spear & Sons to market Scrabble in Sweden.
The book was first published in Swedish (as Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt) in 2013. The English translation was later published in 2015. The rights for translation have been sold in more than 40 countries. [1] In 2017, the novel was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...