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Nordic, a. and n.|ˈnɔːdɪk|
[ad. F. nordique (J. Deniker 1898, in L'Anthropologie IX. 127) f. nord north: see -ic.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Scandinavian people or their languages; spec. of or pertaining to a physical type of northern Germanic peoples characterized by tall stature, bony frame, light colouring, and dolichocephalic head.
In Nazi doctrine the ‘Nordic race’ was regarded as essentially ‘superior’ to other races.
1898W. Z. Ripley in Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 744 A direct physical relationship between the three [peoples], referring them all to a so-called nordic race, is confirmed by the very latest and most competent authority [sc. J. Deniker]. 1921Contemp. Rev. Jan. 56 All the talk about Nordic supremacy is vanity when we look at the facts in Europe. 1929Chesterton Thing xiv. 113 Englishmen who now call themselves Nordic used to call themselves Teutonic. 1937[see sense B. 1 below]. 1938G. Heyer Blunt Instrument ii. 37 You ought to have seen me giving my impression of a Nordic public-school man with a reverence for good form and the done-thing. 1939H. G. Wells Holy Terror iv. ii. 419 The new generation of Germans were ashamed of the Hitler period and the Nordic legend. 1940― All Aboard for Ararat i. 24 The third, Japhet, was what the Germans would consider a Nordic type, all milk and roses. 1957M. Beloff Europe & Europeans iv. 86 The Nordic languages, especially Old Norse, borrowed important words from Anglo-Saxon. 1959Chambers's Encycl. XIV. 319/1 The term viking is Nordic in origin. 1966W. P. Lehmann in Birnbaum & Puhvel Anc. Indo-Europ. Dialects 16 The most striking innovation common to Gothic and the Nordic languages is the development of a stop in geminate j and w clusters. 1968G. Jones Hist. Vikings 69 As Wessén says, at the beginning of his history of the Swedish language:..We have then come to the Primitive Nordic language, the parent tongue of the present Nordic vernaculars, common to the Scandinavian countries down to the beginnings of the Viking Age. 1970Foote & Wilson Viking Achievement 3 Some of the Nordic provinces had sent out tribes in the Migration Age to join the more southerly Germanic peoples as they cut their way through the old domains of the Roman Empire. 1973G. Beare Snake on Grave vii. 36 A crowd of Nordic drunks at a table near him was singing. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 386/3 Nordic Council, organization of the Nordic states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden for the purpose of consultation and cooperation on matters of common interest.
b. Of a skiing competition involving cross-country or jumping events.
1954Brit. Ski Yr. Bk. XVI. 70 The greatest of all of the Nordic competitions—Holmenkollen. 1960Ski-ing (‘Know the Game’ series) 24/2 The Nordic events include cross-country races and jumping competitions. 1966S. Eriksen Come ski with Me 44 Norwegian had won the Nordic Combination and the 18 km. cross-country in Holmenkollen. 1969M. Heller Ski xiii. 170 Nordic ski-ing is the original and basic form of ski-ing... The fundamental techniques are self-evident—the diagonal stride, double poling with and without a stride and uphill strides—in other words, walking on skis. 1972Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 24 June 23/1 Rolf Kjaernsli of Norway has been named nordic skiing program director to develop nordic and cross-country skiing in Canada.
B. n.
1. A person of the Nordic type.
1901Cassell's Mag. June 110/2 The tall blonde race of northern Europe, sometimes called ‘Teutons’, but more scientifically ‘Nordics’. 1928Wodehouse Money for Nothing ii. 32 Well, all I can say is,..it's no life for a refined Nordic. 1936H. G. Wells Anat. Frustration xv. 176 It is for the treatment of the Jews that we are most frequently urged to condemn Hitlerism... Their [sc. the Jews'] racial purity is as much a falsehood as the racial purity of the ‘Nordics’. 1937A. Huxley Ends & Means xiii. 242 Hitlerian theology affirms that there is a Nordic race, inherently superior to all other. Hence it is right that Nordics should organize themselves for conquest.
2. The northern branch of the Germanic languages.
1955T. Burrow Sanskrit Lang. 8 Germanic..may be divided into East Germanic or Gothic (extinct), Nordic or Scandinavian, and West Germanic. 1967Scandinavian Studies XXXIX. 16 (title) Proto-Scandinavian and Common Nordic. 1972in Van Coetsem & Kufner Toward Gram. of Proto-Germanic 78 The close relationship of ‘Nordic’ and ‘Gothic’. |