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Scandinavian, a. and n.|ˌskændɪˈneɪvɪən|
[f. L. Scandinavia + -an.
The name Scandinavia, which appears in the existing text of Pliny, is a mistake for Scadinavia, a. Teut. *Skadīnaujā, whence by normal phonetic development OE. Scędeniᵹ (Beowulf 3336) = ON. Skáney (adopted in OE. as Scónéᵹ), the name of the southern extremity of Sweden; the terminal element is *aujā, OE. éᵹ, íᵹ, island.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, a geographical term including the three countries Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
1784Jerningham (title) The Rise and Progress of the Scandinavian Poetry. 1864D. Cook in Once a Week 26 Nov. 627/2 The flowing flaxen Scandinavian locks which Mr. Fechter's picturesque Hamlet has brought upon the boards.
2. Applied to a style of furnishing, etc., in a Scandinavian manner, esp. as characterized by simplicity of design and the use of pine-wood.
1959R. Condon Manchurian Candidate ii. 19 All of the furniture was made of blond wood in mutated, modern Scandinavian design. 1964L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin vi. 42 There was Scandinavian-style East German furniture in the room. 1968S. B. Hough Sweet Sister Seduced xxviii. 163 He looked around the room, at the Scandinavian chairs, at the window curtains, and the Hi-fi in the corner. 1972C. Fremlin Appointment with Yesterday xi. 83 Visions of colourful teenage rooms in the Sunday colour-supplements, with Scandinavian wood window-seats, and bright cushions. 1979M. Eden Document of Last Nazi xxix. 171 A neat, cold-looking room, with..Scandinavian furniture.
B. n.
1. One connected ethnographically with one of the Scandinavian countries.
1830Scott Ivanhoe xlii. note, The architecture of the ancient Scandinavians.
2. The various languages of the Scandinavian peoples considered as a unit; spec. North Germanic, a subdivision of the Germanic group of Indo-European languages spoken principally in Scandinavia.
1766J. Cleland Way to Things by Words 63 A sense which it also specifically has in the old Scandinavian. 1822tr. Malte-Brun's Universal Geogr. I. 568 The Mœso-Gothic,..the Icelandic and modern Scandinavian, in its two principal dialects the Swedish and the Danish, constitute the Gothic branch. 1888J. Wright tr. Brugmann's Elem. Compar. Gram. Indo-Gmc. Lang. I. 10 Norse (or Scandinavian)..down to the Viking period (800–1000 a.d.) was practically a single language. 1933L. Bloomfield Language iv. 59 While the language of the Lombards seems to have been of the West Germanic type, the others, including Gothic, were closer to Scandinavian. 1954Pei & Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 148 North Germanic, a branch of the Germanic group of the Indo-European family of languages; it comprises Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Faroese and Gotlandic (or Gutnian). Also called Scandinavian. 1966W. P. Lehmann in Birnbaum & Puhvel Anc. Indo-Europ. Dial. 18 The occurrence of a third singular form without -t in the three coastal dialects of West Germanic and in Scandinavian gives evidence of interrelations between these dialects subsequent to the earliest dialect division of Proto-Germanic. 1978W. White in W. Whitman Daybooks & Notebooks I. 69 Rasmus B. Anderson..Professor of Scandinavian at the University of Wisconsin.
Hence Scandiˈnavianism, the characteristic ideas of the Scandinavian people.
1864Daily Tel. 11 May, During the first quarter, however, of the present century, there was a national reaction in favour of Scandinavianism. 1907Academy 5 Oct. 962/1 In plastic art there is a certain Scandinavianism visible, which has lasted longest in Iceland. |