Scandinavianizev.
/ˌskandɪˈneɪvɪənʌɪz/ transitive. To render (place-names, etc.) Scandinavian in form or character.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Scandinavians > [verb (transitive)]
Scandinavianize1933
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [verb (transitive)] > Scandinavian
Scandinavianize1933
1933 Times 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.
1956 I. 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.
1970 Jrnl. Eng. Place-name Soc. 2 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.
1970 Jrnl. Eng. Place-name Soc. 2 12 The second element has probably been scandinavianised to -heim.
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ˌScandiˌnavianiˈzation n.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Scandinavians > [noun] > action of making
Scandinavianization1937
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > Scandinavian > making Scandinavian
Scandinavianization1937
1937 Harvard 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’.
1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. (1963) i. 60 Only occasionally, as in the Wreak valley..is there overwhelming Scandinavianization of the place-name structure.
1981 Notes & Queries Apr. 177/1 In the Danelaw the Grimston(e) names have been taken to be partial scandinavianizations of earlier English names.
ˌScandiˈnavianized adj.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Scandinavians > [adjective]
Norsea1650
scanic1665
Scandian1668
Scandic1708
Scandinavian1784
Norsk1851
Scandinavianized1924
Scandihoovian1968
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic > Scandinavian > Scandinavianized
Scandinavianized1924
1924 A. Mawer & F. M. Stenton Introd. Surv. Eng. Place-names iv. 60 English names often appear in a Scandinavianised form.
1959 C. 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.
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