skrælingi

== Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse skrælingi. === Noun === skrælingi m (genitive singular skrælingja, nominative plural skrælingjar) barbarian Synonyms: barbari m, villimaður m (archaic, derogatory) Greenlander, person from Greenland ==== Declension ==== == Old Norse == === Etymology === Uncertain. There are several suggested origins: Derived from an unattested adjective *skræll (“poor, puny”), compare Norwegian skral (“poor, ill, bad”), Dutch schraal (“poor, scanty”); Fortescue et al. (1994) propose relation to skrá (“dried skin”), in reference to the animal pelts worn by the Inuit; May be linked to skrælna (“to be shrivelled, e.g. by the sun”); Onomatopoeic origin has been proposed by William Thalbitzer (1932), compare skrækja (“to screech, shriek”). === Pronunciation === (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈskrɛːlɪ̃ŋɡɪ/ === Noun === skrælingi m (genitive skrælinga, plural skrælingar or skrælingjar) a native of Greenland or Vinland ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: skrælingi (“barbarian”) Faroese: skrælingur Norwegian Nynorsk: skræling Swedish: skräling Danish: skrælling (“wimp, weakling”) Norwegian Bokmål: skrelling → English: Skraeling →? Greenlandic: kalaaleq (“Greenlander”) West Greenlandic Pidgin: kralit === References === Ernst Håkon Jahr, Ingvild Broch, editors (1996), “kralit”, in “Appendix II: Comments on the words in Meyer's list”, in Language contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages (Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs; 88), Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 233 Kirsten A. Seaver (March 2008), “Pygmies of the Far North”, in Journal of World History‎[2], volume 19, number 1, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, pages 63–87 van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “schraal”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute === Further reading === Skraeling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Vinland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia