Nordicadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈnɔːdɪk/, U.S.

/ˈnɔrdɪk/

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from German. Etymon: German nordisch.

Etymology: Apparently < German nordisch concerning, belonging to, originating in, or characteristic of the north of Europe (17th cent.), northern (16th cent. as nortisch ; < Nord north n. + -isch -ish suffix¹), with remodelling of the ending after -ic suffix. Compare Swedish nordisk (mid 17th cent.), Danish nordisk ; for further Germanic parallels see Norse n. and adj. Compare also post-classical Latin Nordicus , adjective and noun (a1142 in a British source, perhaps an independent formation < English north n. + -icus -ic suffix).In sense A. 1b after French nordique (in race nordique ; J. Deniker 1898, in L'anthropologie 9 127). With sense B. 2 compare French nordique (1916 or earlier in ancien nordique ), German das Nordische (a1716 in Leibniz), and with application to languages in sense A. 1a compare French nordique in langue nordique (1952 or earlier), German nordische Sprachen (plural).

A. adj.

a. Of or relating to Scandinavia, the Scandinavian people, or their languages.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Scandinavia and Iceland > [adjective] > Nordic

Norsea1650

Nordic1824

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic > Scandinavian

Scandian1668

Scandinavian1784

Nordic1824

Norse1844

Anglo-Norse1927

1824 Retrospective Rev. 10 i. 113 These incorporated mechanics..read, in the long winter evenings, the chronicles of their country, or the ancient Nordic poems, and erotic ballads.

1850 Harper's Mag. June 81/2 The burghers of the provincial towns in Germany..would amuse themselves by reading some of the ancient traditions of their own country, as related in the old Nordic poems.

1931 Ann. Math. Statistics 2 488 The editor has intended to give a picture of the industrial statistics of the Nordic states.

1957 M. Beloff Europe & Europeans iv. 86 The Nordic languages, especially Old Norse, borrowed important words from Anglo-Saxon.

1973 G. Beare Snake on Grave vii. 36 A crowd of Nordic drunks at a table near him was singing.

2001 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 95 19 Each party undertakes to give applicants with a permanent residence permit in other Nordic countries access to its upper-secondary-school education.

b. spec. Of or relating to a physical type of northern Germanic peoples characterized by tall stature, a bony frame, light colouring, and dolichocephalic head.In Nazi doctrine the ‘Nordic race’ was regarded as essentially ‘superior’ to other races (cf. Aryan adj. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > other racial types > [adjective]

Ligurian1632

Mediterranean1876

Eurafrican1890

Alpine1894

Armenoid1894

Nordic1898

Eurasiatic1901

Veddoid1956

1898 W. Z. Ripley in Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 744 A direct physical relationship between the three [peoples], referring them all to a so-called nordic race, is confirmed by the very latest and most competent authority [sc. J. Deniker].

1921 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 56 All the talk about Nordic supremacy is vanity when we look at the facts in Europe.

1940 H. G. Wells All aboard for Ararat i. 24 The third, Japhet, was what the Germans would consider a Nordic type, all milk and roses.

1985 A. S. Byatt Still Life xvii. 189 She had a composed, nordic little face, with straight blond eyebrows and very blue eyes.

2006 L. Dillman tr. G. Belli Scroll of Seduction i. 5 It was unusual in Madrid..to see a young woman who combined a tropical café aut lait complexion with a tall, Nordic build.

2. Of a skiing competition: involving cross-country or jumping events. Also: designating skiing of this type.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [adjective] > types of skiing

Alpine1903

cross-country1911

downhill1911

para-ski1942

Nordic1948

off-piste1959

heli-ski1982

back country1983

1948 Portland (Maine) Press Herald 24 Jan. 12/5 They also will compete in the Nordic combined event which includes jumping.

1954 Brit. Ski Year Bk. 16 70 The greatest of all of the Nordic competitions—Holmenkollen.

1972 Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 24 June 23/1 Rolf Kjaernsli of Norway has been named nordic skiing program director to develop nordic and cross-country skiing in Canada.

1987 Daily Tel. 6 Feb. 24/3 A probable solution would be to count only the better of each racer's two slalom runs, ‘as we do in the Nordic Combined, counting only the best two of three jumps’.

2003 H. Rusko Cross-country Skiing Foreword p. viii Few other sports have experienced such an explosive growth in interest and participation in past decades as has Nordic Skiing.

B. n.

1. A person of the Nordic type; a Scandinavian person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > other racial types > [noun]

Pontic1683

yellow man1788

yellowskin1847

Euro-African1854

Mediterranean1876

Armenoid1894

Alpine1899

Nordic1900

Eurasiatic1901

blond beast1907

Caspian1923

Veddoid1948

1900 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 9 91 There would seem to be a sort of natural, and economically highly desirable, climatic division of labor—the tropics for the Chinese, the temperate zone for the Nordics and other Europeans, [etc.]

1928 P. G. Wodehouse Money for Nothing ii. 32 Well, all I can say is,..it's no life for a refined Nordic.

1936 H. G. Wells Anat. Frustration xv. 176 Their [sc. the Jews'] racial purity is as much a falsehood as the racial purity of the ‘Nordics’.

1992 Financial Times 4 June 24/7 Danes were yesterday being sharply criticised by some of their fellow Nordics.

2009 J. P. Spiro Defending Master Race vii. 149 The Nordics are inherently individualistic, self-reliant, and jealous of their personal freedom

2. The northern branch of the Germanic languages.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > Scandinavian

runic1665

Scandinavian1766

Old Norse1833

ON1864

Norse1927

Nordic1940

1940 Indian Culture 7 ii. 232 The common-Germanic shortening of the long final vowels ī, ῡ, ō took place in Gothic after this syncope of short vowels, but in Nordic..it took place before it.

1955 T. Burrow Sanskrit Lang. 8 Germanic..may be divided into East Germanic or Gothic (extinct), Nordic or Scandinavian, and West Germanic.

1967 Scand. Stud. 39 16 (title) Proto-Scandinavian and Common Nordic.

1972 in F. Van Coetsem & H. L. Kufner Toward Gram. of Proto-Germanic 78 The close relationship of ‘Nordic’ and ‘Gothic’.

1992 T. Riad Struct. Germanic Prosody 345 The general movement of the distinctive system of Nordic can..be said to go from long words and fewer phonemes to shorter words and more phonemes.

Compounds

Nordic gold n. a gold-coloured alloy consisting of copper with small amounts of zinc, aluminium, and tin (developed in Sweden in the early 1990s as a non-allergenic alternative to nickel for use in coinage, and used in the euro coins introduced in 2002).

ΚΠ

1994 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 23 Oct. (City section) 4 Nordex is the first pure Nordic gold and diamond exploration play to seek a London quote.

1998 Discover (Nexis) 19 66 Nordic gold..is mostly copper, with smidgens of zinc, aluminium, and tin.

2002 Korea Times (Nexis) 5 Mar. The commemorative coins come in seven designs, including..four made of silver and one of Nordic gold.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nordic
释义	Nordicadj.n. Brit. /ˈnɔːdɪk/, U.S. /ˈnɔrdɪk/ Origin: Apparently a borrowing from German. Etymon: German nordisch. Etymology: Apparently < German nordisch concerning, belonging to, originating in, or characteristic of the north of Europe (17th cent.), northern (16th cent. as nortisch ; < Nord north n. + -isch -ish suffix¹), with remodelling of the ending after -ic suffix. Compare Swedish nordisk (mid 17th cent.), Danish nordisk ; for further Germanic parallels see Norse n. and adj. Compare also post-classical Latin Nordicus , adjective and noun (a1142 in a British source, perhaps an independent formation < English north n. + -icus -ic suffix).In sense A. 1b after French nordique (in race nordique ; J. Deniker 1898, in L'anthropologie 9 127). With sense B. 2 compare French nordique (1916 or earlier in ancien nordique ), German das Nordische (a1716 in Leibniz), and with application to languages in sense A. 1a compare French nordique in langue nordique (1952 or earlier), German nordische Sprachen (plural). A. adj. 1. a. Of or relating to Scandinavia, the Scandinavian people, or their languages. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Scandinavia and Iceland > [adjective] > Nordic Norsea1650 Nordic1824 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic > Scandinavian Scandian1668 Scandinavian1784 Nordic1824 Norse1844 Anglo-Norse1927 1824 Retrospective Rev. 10 i. 113 These incorporated mechanics..read, in the long winter evenings, the chronicles of their country, or the ancient Nordic poems, and erotic ballads. 1850 Harper's Mag. June 81/2 The burghers of the provincial towns in Germany..would amuse themselves by reading some of the ancient traditions of their own country, as related in the old Nordic poems. 1931 Ann. Math. Statistics 2 488 The editor has intended to give a picture of the industrial statistics of the Nordic states. 1957 M. Beloff Europe & Europeans iv. 86 The Nordic languages, especially Old Norse, borrowed important words from Anglo-Saxon. 1973 G. Beare Snake on Grave vii. 36 A crowd of Nordic drunks at a table near him was singing. 2001 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 95 19 Each party undertakes to give applicants with a permanent residence permit in other Nordic countries access to its upper-secondary-school education. b. spec. Of or relating to a physical type of northern Germanic peoples characterized by tall stature, a bony frame, light colouring, and dolichocephalic head.In Nazi doctrine the ‘Nordic race’ was regarded as essentially ‘superior’ to other races (cf. Aryan adj. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > other racial types > [adjective] Ligurian1632 Mediterranean1876 Eurafrican1890 Alpine1894 Armenoid1894 Nordic1898 Eurasiatic1901 Veddoid1956 1898 W. Z. Ripley in Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 744 A direct physical relationship between the three [peoples], referring them all to a so-called nordic race, is confirmed by the very latest and most competent authority [sc. J. Deniker]. 1921 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 56 All the talk about Nordic supremacy is vanity when we look at the facts in Europe. 1940 H. G. Wells All aboard for Ararat i. 24 The third, Japhet, was what the Germans would consider a Nordic type, all milk and roses. 1985 A. S. Byatt Still Life xvii. 189 She had a composed, nordic little face, with straight blond eyebrows and very blue eyes. 2006 L. Dillman tr. G. Belli Scroll of Seduction i. 5 It was unusual in Madrid..to see a young woman who combined a tropical café aut lait complexion with a tall, Nordic build. 2. Of a skiing competition: involving cross-country or jumping events. Also: designating skiing of this type. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [adjective] > types of skiing Alpine1903 cross-country1911 downhill1911 para-ski1942 Nordic1948 off-piste1959 heli-ski1982 back country1983 1948 Portland (Maine) Press Herald 24 Jan. 12/5 They also will compete in the Nordic combined event which includes jumping. 1954 Brit. Ski Year Bk. 16 70 The greatest of all of the Nordic competitions—Holmenkollen. 1972 Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 24 June 23/1 Rolf Kjaernsli of Norway has been named nordic skiing program director to develop nordic and cross-country skiing in Canada. 1987 Daily Tel. 6 Feb. 24/3 A probable solution would be to count only the better of each racer's two slalom runs, ‘as we do in the Nordic Combined, counting only the best two of three jumps’. 2003 H. Rusko Cross-country Skiing Foreword p. viii Few other sports have experienced such an explosive growth in interest and participation in past decades as has Nordic Skiing. B. n. 1. A person of the Nordic type; a Scandinavian person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > other racial types > [noun] Pontic1683 yellow man1788 yellowskin1847 Euro-African1854 Mediterranean1876 Armenoid1894 Alpine1899 Nordic1900 Eurasiatic1901 blond beast1907 Caspian1923 Veddoid1948 1900 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 9 91 There would seem to be a sort of natural, and economically highly desirable, climatic division of labor—the tropics for the Chinese, the temperate zone for the Nordics and other Europeans, [etc.] 1928 P. G. Wodehouse Money for Nothing ii. 32 Well, all I can say is,..it's no life for a refined Nordic. 1936 H. G. Wells Anat. Frustration xv. 176 Their [sc. the Jews'] racial purity is as much a falsehood as the racial purity of the ‘Nordics’. 1992 Financial Times 4 June 24/7 Danes were yesterday being sharply criticised by some of their fellow Nordics. 2009 J. P. Spiro Defending Master Race vii. 149 The Nordics are inherently individualistic, self-reliant, and jealous of their personal freedom 2. The northern branch of the Germanic languages. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > Scandinavian runic1665 Scandinavian1766 Old Norse1833 ON1864 Norse1927 Nordic1940 1940 Indian Culture 7 ii. 232 The common-Germanic shortening of the long final vowels ī, ῡ, ō took place in Gothic after this syncope of short vowels, but in Nordic..it took place before it. 1955 T. Burrow Sanskrit Lang. 8 Germanic..may be divided into East Germanic or Gothic (extinct), Nordic or Scandinavian, and West Germanic. 1967 Scand. Stud. 39 16 (title) Proto-Scandinavian and Common Nordic. 1972 in F. Van Coetsem & H. L. Kufner Toward Gram. of Proto-Germanic 78 The close relationship of ‘Nordic’ and ‘Gothic’. 1992 T. Riad Struct. Germanic Prosody 345 The general movement of the distinctive system of Nordic can..be said to go from long words and fewer phonemes to shorter words and more phonemes. Compounds Nordic gold n. a gold-coloured alloy consisting of copper with small amounts of zinc, aluminium, and tin (developed in Sweden in the early 1990s as a non-allergenic alternative to nickel for use in coinage, and used in the euro coins introduced in 2002). ΚΠ 1994 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 23 Oct. (City section) 4 Nordex is the first pure Nordic gold and diamond exploration play to seek a London quote. 1998 Discover (Nexis) 19 66 Nordic gold..is mostly copper, with smidgens of zinc, aluminium, and tin. 2002 Korea Times (Nexis) 5 Mar. The commemorative coins come in seven designs, including..four made of silver and one of Nordic gold. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1824
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