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  2. Icelandic grammar - Wikipedia

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    Icelandic grammar is the set of structural rules that describe the use of the Icelandic language. Icelandic is a heavily inflected language . Icelandic nouns are assigned to one of three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, or neuter), and are declined into four cases (nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive).

  3. Icelandic vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    It is often the case in Icelandic that words for new concepts or ideas are composites of other words, veðurfræði (‘meteorology’), is derived from veður (‘weather’) and -fræði (‘studies’); or simply that old disused words are revived for new concepts. Like other Germanic languages, Icelandic words have a tendency to be ...

  4. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    Turkish dictionary that is composed of modern and Ottoman Turkish, includes 60,000 entries and 33,000 idioms with around 100,000 examples based on literary works of 840 writers. It's online version is named "Kubbealtı Lugatı". [113] Spanish: 93,000

  5. Árni Böðvarsson - Wikipedia

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    Árni Böðvarsson. Árni Böðvarsson (May 15, 1924 – September 1, 1992) was an Icelandic educator, grammarian, and dictionary editor.He edited the first standard dictionary of Icelandic, co-edited a Russian-Icelandic dictionary, and was also an Esperantist, editor of an Icelandic-Esperanto dictionary, a long-time member of the Universal Esperanto Association (UEA), co-founder of the ...

  6. Icelandic language - Wikipedia

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    Icelandic is an Indo-European language and belongs to the North Germanic group of the Germanic languages. Icelandic is further classified as a West Scandinavian language. [8] Icelandic is derived from an earlier language Old Norse, which later became Old Icelandic and currently Modern Icelandic. The division between old and modern Icelandic is ...

  7. Linguistic purism in Icelandic - Wikipedia

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    Sapir and Zuckermann (2008) demonstrate how Icelandic "camouflages" many English words by means of phono-semantic matching. [3] For example, the Icelandic-looking word eyðni, meaning "AIDS", is a phonosemantic match of the English acronym AIDS, using the existing Icelandic verb eyða ("to destroy") and the Icelandic nominal suffix -ni.

  8. WordReference.com - Wikipedia

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    WordReference is an online translation dictionary for, among others, the language pairs English–French, English–Italian, English–Spanish, French–Spanish, Spanish–Portuguese and English–Portuguese. WordReference formerly had Oxford Unabridged and Concise dictionaries available for a subscription.

  9. Richard Cleasby - Wikipedia

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    An Icelandic-English Dictionary by Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson, published in 1874. This page was last edited on 18 June 2024, at 21:39 (UTC). Text is ...

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