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Swedish

Swedish \Swed"ish\, a. [Cf. G. schwedisch, Sw. svensk.] Of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants.

Swedish turnip. (Bot.) See under Turnip.

Swedish

Swedish \Swed"ish\, n. The language of Swedes.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Swedish

c.1600, from Swede + -ish. Similar formation in Dutch Zweedsch, German Schwedisch. Related: Swedishness. As a language name from c.1600. The candy Swedish fish attested by that name by 1983.

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Swedish

Swedish or may refer to:

  • Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe
  • Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
  • Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by the Swedish language
  • Swedish people or Swedes, persons with a Swedish ancestral or ethnic identity
  • A national or citizen of Sweden, see demographics of Sweden
  • Swedish cuisine
  • Swedish culture
  • Swedish Blue duck
  • Schwedentrunk, a Swedish drink

Usage examples of "swedish".

Foreign Minister Hennyei communicated to the Swedish and Turkish Embassies in Budapest the proclamation and its reasons, and communicated also to the Hungarian Embassies in Stockholm and Ankara the request that they should bring the facts to the attention of the representatives of the Allied Powers.

Unlike Anse himself, the Swedish officer was obviously an expert horseman.

That was a few days ago, but to-day, when Bernardine was playing chess with the Swedish Professor, Mrs.

Mulled wines, and spiced wines such as Swedish glogg, often employing ginger, are the survivors of that tradition.

BUSH, JUNE 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling CONTENTS INTRODUCTION.

In the end they reached Gothenburg, where a noted merchant of the place, who had a Scots name, but whose family had been Swedish for three centuries, assisted them to a change in their mode of life.

He was very grateful that Swedish Shortsnouts did not have the kind of tails Hungarian Horntails had.

Thomsen had sailed back to Germany on a Swedish ship, lit up to keep it safe from U-boats, in exchange for Americans interned in Germany.

If Wayne and Ishihara were both Swedish, however, their hosts would expect them to communicate in that language.

What is more to the immediate purpose is that I can tell you something that has nothing to do with common gossip, something that I learnt from a man in the legation: it appears that Jagiello is about to marry a young Swedish lady.

She had run off with Jagiello, a Lithuanian officer in the Swedish service who had long and quite openly admired her.

Stephen was suspected of being an intelligence-agent and he and Jack, together with their companion Jagiello, an officer in the Swedish service, were taken to Paris and lodged in the Temple prison.

In addition to the Socialist papers already referred to, there are in our country hundreds of others in English, German, Bohemian, Polish, Jewish, Slovac, Slavonic, Danish, Italian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Lettish, Norwegian, Croatian, Russian, and Swedish.

Socialist Party, even as far back as 1913, published in the United States some 200 or more papers and periodicals in English, German, Bohemian, Polish, Jewish, Slovac, Slavonic, Danish, Italian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Lettish, Norwegian, Croatian, Russian and Swedish.

Swedish study of the mitochondrial DNA of fifty-three people, which suggested that all modern humans emerged from Africa within the past 100,000 years and came from a breeding stock of no more than 10,000 individuals.