Icelandicize

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US, UK/aɪsˈlændɪˌsaɪz/

verb

To make (more) Icelandic.

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Meanings

verbIcelandicize (third-person singular simple present Icelandicizes, present participle Icelandicizing, simple past and past participle Icelandicized)

present singular third person Icelandicizes · participle present Icelandicizing · participle past Icelandicized · past Icelandicized · alternative Icelandicise

  1. To make (more) Icelandic.

    In a few instances, both a foreign and an Icelandicised form may be encountered[.]

    2022, Daisy L. Neijman, Icelandic: An Essential Grammar, Routledge, →ISBN, page 32
    1 more example

    The latter consists of the foreign word in Icelandicised form (spelling and pronunciation) which is given the weak past participle ending -aður so that it can be inflected.

    2022, Daisy L. Neijman, Icelandic: An Essential Grammar, Routledge, →ISBN, page 290f.

Origin

From Icelandic + -ize.

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Translations

Esperanto islandigi
  • islandigito make (more) Icelandic
Icelandic íslenska
  • íslenskato make (more) Icelandic
Cite this entry
APA

Icelandicize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Icelandicize

MLA

“Icelandicize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Icelandicize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Icelandicize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Icelandicize.

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