Example sentences for: icelandic

How can you use “icelandic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Windows is compounded from the Icelandic words vindr `wind' + auga `eye,' a window being the eye of a house.

  • In addition to Anglo-Saxon and French stock brought here by the fur trade, late 19th-century immigration campaigns have given Manitoba thriving communities of Ukrainian, German, Jewish, Polish, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, and even Icelandic origin, with more recent arrivals from Asia and the Philippines.

  • The zaniest example I know of occurs in a bilingual dictionary published in 1966, the Ensk-Islensk Ordabók [English-Icelandic Dictionary] of Sigurour Orn Bogason.

  • English eyebrow and German Augenbraue are matched by Swedish ögenbryn , Norwegian øyebryn , Danish øjenbryn , Icelandic (Old and Mod.) augabrún , Faroese eygnabro .

  • In Iceland, the daily Morgunbladid reported that a plan to sail an Icelandic Viking ship to North America as part of next year's millennium celebrations is in jeopardy because lack of funding has delayed the preparations.


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