ICELANDIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Icelandic mean? 

• ICELANDIC (noun)
  The noun ICELANDIC has 1 sense:

1. a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Iceland

  Familiarity information: ICELANDIC used as a noun is very rare.

• ICELANDIC (adjective)
  The adjective ICELANDIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to Iceland or its people or culture and language

  Familiarity information: ICELANDIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ICELANDIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Scandinavian language that is the official language of Iceland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Icelandic" is a kind of...):

Nordic; Norse; North Germanic; North Germanic language; Scandinavian; Scandinavian language (the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland)

• ICELANDIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to Iceland or its people or culture and language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Icelandic sagas

Pertainym:

Iceland (an island republic on the island of Iceland; became independent of Denmark in 1944)

 Context examples 

Later Icelandic accounts suggest that in the 1120s, Greenlanders used walrus ivory to secure the right to their own bishopric from the king of Norway.

(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)

A high resolution genetic map based on 5136 microsatellite markers in 146 Icelandic families.

(deCODE Map, NCI Thesaurus)

Recent research revealed that Greenland might have been settled only after Icelandic walruses were hunted to exhaustion.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)

Scientists used ancient DNA analyses and carbon-14 dating to demonstrate the past existence of a unique population of Icelandic walrus that went extinct shortly after Norse settlement some 1,100 years ago.

(Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement, National Science Foundation)

The Icelandic Sagas tell of Erik the Red: exiled for murder in the late 10th century he fled to southwest Greenland, establishing its first Norse settlement.

(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)

In a new study, researchers analyzed ancient and contemporary DNA along with carbon-14 dating of walrus remains, supplemented with detailed studies of the remains' locations, place names and references to walrus-hunting in Icelandic Medieval literature, including the Icelandic Sagas.

(Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement, National Science Foundation)

DNA was extracted from walrus sites and archaeological excavations of walrus samples and compared with data from contemporary walruses, documenting that the Icelandic walrus constituted a genetically unique lineage, distinct from all other historic and contemporary walrus populations in the North Atlantic.

(Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement, National Science Foundation)