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单词 icelandish
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Icelandishadj.

Brit. /ˈʌɪsləndɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈaɪsləndɪʃ/
Forms: 1500s 1700s Islandish, 1700s– Icelandish, 1800s Iselandish.
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Iceland , -ish suffix1.
Etymology: < the name of Iceland (see Iceland n.1) + -ish suffix1. Compare Old Icelandic íslenzkr (Icelandic íslenskur; also Old Icelandic íslenzka (Icelandic íslenska), noun, denoting the language), Swedish isländsch (17th cent.), early modern Danish islandsk, islendisk (Danish islandsk).
rare.
= Icelandic adj.
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1577 J. Dee Gen. Mem. Arte Nauig. 62 Some Two, or Three Honest Men, who should be Skilfull in Far-Forreyn-Languages: As, in the..Islandish.
1635 W. Saltonstall tr. G. Mercator Historia Mundi 37 They doe expect for these, Iselandish cloth (commonly called Watman) great store of Brimstone, dried fish, butter, tallow, hides, skins of wilde beasts, foxes, white faulcons, horses, and the like.
1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 22) ii. i. ii. 411 Snorro Sturlœsin, the Islandish Historian of Norway.
1793 H. Marsh tr. J. D. Michaelis Introd. New Test. II. ii. 630 The second class, or the Low German, comprehends the dialects of Lower Saxony, and Westphalia, the Danish, Swedish,..Icelandish, Flemish, Dutch, and English.
1807 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 24 547 Corroborated by the analogy of the Iselandish language.
1908 G. B. Shaw Let. 18 July (1972) II. 802 Some very nice Icelandish MSS.
2007 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 25 Aug. 68 Iceland's Geysir Green Energy group took a 46 per cent stake in the company—Orka being the Icelandish word for Energy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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