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Icelandic, a. and n.|aɪˈslændɪk|
[See -ic.]
A. adj. Pertaining to Iceland, or to the language in use there.
1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland 4 In the old Gothick or Islandick language. 1770T. Percy tr. Mallet's North. Antiq. iii. (1847) 83 The Icelandic chronicles paint out Odin as the most persuasive of men. 1780Von Troil Iceland 326 Where less fish and sour whey are eaten, and more Icelandic moss. 1844Ansted Geol. II. 515 The best known of the Icelandic hot springs are called Geysers. 1850Latham Eng. Lang. (ed. 3) 43 Of the Icelandic verbs the infinitives end in -a.
B. n. The language of Iceland, which in all essential points retains the form of the tongue anciently spoken over the whole Scandinavian region (Old Norse).
1833Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 352 Old Icelandic, like the old Anglo-Saxon..is so difficult as often to perplex the best scholars. 1850Latham Eng. Lang. (ed. 3) 44 The characteristic..of the Icelandic..is the possession of a passive form.
So † Iceˈlandian, † ˈIcelandish [cf. Du. ijslandsch, Da. islandsk, Icel. íslenzkr], adjs.
1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. i. ii. (1737) 328 Snorro Sturlison, the Islandish Historian. 1712Blackmore Creation i. 367 A cold icelandian desart. 1807W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXIV. 547 Corroborated by the analogy of the Iselandish language. |