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Scandinavianize, v.|ˌskændɪˈneɪvɪənaɪz|
[f. Scandinavian a. + -ize.]
trans. To render (place-names, etc.) Scandinavian in form or character. So ˌScandiˈnavianized ppl. a.; hence ˌScandiˌnavianiˈzation.
1924Mawer & Stenton Introd. to Survey of Eng. Place-Names iv. 60 English names often appear in a Scandinavianised form. 1933Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Apr. 271/3 The distribution of place-names..is conclusive proof that all but the south-western Corner of Northamptonshire was Scandinavianized to a far greater extent than has been realized. 1937Harvard Stud. & Notes in Philol. & Lit. XX. 155 Cyninges-clif, High Coniscliffe... The modern form shows adaptation of the first el[ement] to ON konungr for OE cyning; for further examples [of] a similar Scandinavianization see..‘Connington’. 1956I. S. Maxwell in D. L. Linton Sheffield 131 Those settlements sited somewhat farther from the rivers whose names also contain Scandinavian elements or have been Scandinavianized. 1959C. L. Wrenn Word & Symbol (1967) 24 It would seem..that the Irish word [cros] came into Old English rather through Scandinavianised Irish settlers than direct. 1962H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon England (1963) i. 60 Only occasionally, as in the Wreak valley..is there overwhelming Scandinavianization of the place-name structure. 1970Jrnl. Eng. Place-Name Soc. II. 12 Rudston YE 98 (originally OE *rōd-stān) appears in the Bruce fief with the second element scandinavianised to -stein, Rodestein 332v beside DB Rodestan. Ibid., The second element has probably been scandinavianised to -heim. 1981N. & Q. Apr. 177/1 In the Danelaw the Grimston(e) names have been taken to be partial scandinavianizations of earlier English names. |