List of English words of Scandinavian origin

This is a list of English words that are probably of modern Scandinavian origin. This list excludes words borrowed directly from Old Norse; for those, see list of English words of Old Norse origin.

English words of Scandinavian origin

• cog
• cosy
• flounder
• hug
• lug
• scree
• snug
• torsk, "codfish"
• wicker

English words of Danish origin

• aquavit, "a clear Scandinavian liquor flavored with caraway seeds"
• fjeld, "a barren plateau of the Scandinavian upland"
• flense, "to strip of blubber or skin"
• Ombudsman, “Ombudsmand”
• Window, “vindue”
• scrike, "shriek"
• torsk, "codfish"
• husband, “hus” is house in Danish, “bonde” is a type of farmer in Danish. Source: Kasper
• egg, "æg"

English words of Norwegian origin

• aquavit, "a clear Scandinavian liquor flavored with caraway seeds"
• brisling, "sprat"
• fjord, "a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes"
• flense, "to strip of blubber or skin"
• floe, "floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water"
• gravlax, "salmon cured especially with salt, sugar, pepper, and dill and often additional ingredients (such as fennel, coriander, lime, and vodka or aquavit)"
• klister, "a soft wax used on skis"
• krill, "planktonic crustaceans and their larvae (order or suborder Euphausiacea and especially genus Euphausia) that constitute the principal food of baleen whales"
• lemming, "any of various small short-tailed furry-footed rodents (such as genera Lemmus and Dicrostonyx) of circumpolar distribution that are notable for population fluctuations and recurrent mass migrations"
• lefse, "a large thin potato pancake served buttered and folded"
• lutefisk, "dried codfish that has been soaked in a water and lye solution before cooking"
• murk, "gloom, darkness; c. 1300, myrke, from Old Norse myrkr 'darkness,' from Proto-Germanic *merkwjo, Danish mǿrk 'darkness',"
• murky, "dark, obscure, gloomy; mid-14c., from murk + -y,"
• scrike, "shriek"
• ski, "one of a pair of narrow strips of wood, metal, or plastic curving upward in front that are used especially for gliding over snow"
• slalom, "skiing in a zigzag or wavy course between upright obstacles (such as flags)"
• telemark, "a turn in skiing in which the outside ski is advanced considerably ahead of the other ski and then turned inward at a steadily widening angle until the turn is complete"
• torsk, "codfish"

See also

• List of English words of Old Norse origin
• Lists of English words by country or language of origin
• List of English words of Swedish origin