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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]
A Mecanum wheel is an omnidirectional wheel design for a land-based vehicle to move in any direction. It is sometimes called the Swedish wheel or Ilon wheel after its inventor, Bengt Erland Ilon (1923–2008), [ 1 ] who conceived of the concept while working as an engineer with the Swedish company Mecanum AB, and patented it in the United ...
allvarlig - serious; andra - others; anledning - reason; ansikte - face; år - year; arbete - work; barn - child/kid; berättelse - story; bil - car; bok - book
aquavit, "a clear Scandinavian liquor flavored with caraway seeds" [6]; brisling, "sprat" [7]; fjord, "a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes" [8]; flense, "to strip of blubber or skin" [9]
Svenska Akademiens ordlista (Swedish: [ˈsvɛ̂nːska akadɛˈmiːns ˈûːɖˌlɪsːta], "Word list of the Swedish Academy"), abbreviated SAOL, is a spelling dictionary published every few years by the Swedish Academy. [1] [2] [3] It is a single volume that is considered the final arbiter of Swedish spelling.
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 ...
An etymological dictionary discusses the etymology of the words listed. Often, large dictionaries, such as the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's, will contain some etymological information, without aspiring to focus on etymology. [1] Etymological dictionaries are the product of research in historical linguistics. For many words in any ...
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.