Icelandic

[ US /aɪˈsɫændɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to Iceland or its people or culture and language
    the Icelandic president is a woman
    Icelandic sagas
    Icelandic ports
NOUN
  1. a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Iceland
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How To Use Icelandic In A Sentence

  • Nevertheless, the international credit crunch and the weakening of global growth will "aggravate" the slowdown of the Icelandic economy, Mr. Haarde said. As Iceland's Krona Falls,
  • The best fishermen returned for a second year in a row without their usual haul of cod and haddock, so the Icelandic government took radical action: they privatized the fish.
  • The Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull, which generated by far the most buzz on the show floor, landed a seven-figure deal for a memoir that will cover its early days as a steam-venting fumarole right through to its headline-making eruption. Laurence Hughes: Things I'd Like to See This Weekend on C-SPAN's "Book TV"
  • He takes me riding on a frisky Icelandic horse. Times, Sunday Times
  • Inside a rehearsal space at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center this week, a group of musicians including former múm vocalist Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir, an Icelandic string trio Gyda Valtýsdóttir, Borgar Magnason and Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir and the Seattle-based Aono Jikken Ensemble were running through their cues and a new score by composer Matthew Patton. Worldwide Hospitalities
  • Four people are marooned on an Icelandic rock outcrop in terrible weather. Times, Sunday Times
  • I note that skrimslis an Icelandic monster, chronicled in Fortean Times, possibly a sort of reptile living in lakes.
  • My study of the Elder Futhark has been eclectic, though I approach them from the old Icelandic and Norse runic poems as interpreted by Kate MacDowell. Kelley Harrell: Harry Potter and the Elder Futhark
  • I work out my sexual frustration by going to the utmost extreme in Icelandic purism. Languagehat.com: HIGH ICELANDIC.
  • Pastor in Iceland: Fischer not 'exhumed' broke the news: tissue samples had been taken from chess champion Bobby Fischer's grave, on the order of the Icelandic Supreme Court to settle a paternity dispute. ChessBase News
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