Norwegian Words in English
- akevitt – "life water"
- big – "great man"
- clever – "ready, skillful"
- cozy – "be comfortable"
- fjord – "going, passage"
- floe – "layer, slab"
- gloom – "to stare somberly"
- klister – "glue, paste"
- krill – "small fry of fish"
- lad – "young man"
- lag – "go slowly"
- lemming – for the small arctic rodent
- lurk – "to sneak away"
- lutefisk – "fish dried in lye"
- mogul (ski) – "heap, mound"
- narwhal – "corpse-whale"
- nudge – "to jostle, rub"
- rig (to fit) – "to equip"
- rug – "coarse coverlet"
- scowl – "look furtively"
- scraggly – "a lean person"
- scrannel – "rubbish"
- shad – "small whitefish"
- shingle (stones) – "small stones"
- ski – "plank or chop of wood"
- skrei – "flock, crowd"
- skulk – "to shirk, malinger"
- slalom – "sloping track"
- slang – "nickname"
- sluggard – "heavy, slow person"
- squall – "sudden rush of water"
- straggle – "to walk laboriously"
- tipple – "to drink slowly"
- totter – "to quiver, shake"
- trash – "rubbish, baggage"
- yngling – "youngster"