Icelandicize

English

Alternative forms

• Icelandicise (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

From Icelandic +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /aɪsˈlændɪˌsaɪz/
• Hyphenation: Ice‧land‧i‧cize

Verb

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

1. To make (more) Icelandic.
   • 2022, Daisy L. Neijman, Icelandic: An Essential Grammar, Routledge, →ISBN, page 32:

     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 290f.:

     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.

Derived terms

• Icelandicization

Translations

to make (more) Icelandic

• Esperanto: islandigi
• Icelandic: íslenska (is)