Words similar to icelandic
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.