Svenska Utlåneord?|Allt mellan himmel och jord|Forum|Nordichardware

Har för mig att tungsten är ett utlåneord. Wolfram (du vet tråden i glödlampor) hette tungsten i sverige förut.

Kolla upp "Old Norse", språket som vikingarna pratade. Engelskan är väldigt influerat av det. T.ex. i Skottland säger man fortfarande "baern" om ungar, från vikingarnas "barn". Dessutom heter det "Wednesday" efter den fornnordiska guden Woden (Oden) och "Thursday" från åskguden "Thunor".

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http://www.worldlanguage.com/L.....nglish.htm

The Old English vocabulary consisted of a sprinkling of Latin and Scandinavian (Old Norse) words over an Anglo-Saxon base. Latin words included street, kitchen, kettle, cup, cheese,wine, and, after the adoption of Christianity, angel, bishop, abbot, martyr, and candle. The Vikings brought many Old Norse words (sky, egg, cake, skin, leg, window, husband, fellow, skill, anger, flat, odd, ugly, get, give, take, raise, call, die), as well as the personal pronouns they, their, and them,. Celtic has left its mark mostly in place names (Devon, Dover, Kent, Carlisle), and in the names of most English rivers (Thames, Avon, Trent, Severn).

Many Old English words and their Old Norse counterparts competed vigorously with each other for supremacy in the language. Sometimes the Old Norse word won out, sometimes the English, in some cases both words remained in use. For "window" the Norse vindauga ("wind-eye") won out over English eagthyrl ("eye-hole"), but the English nothyrl ("nose-hole") became the modern "nostril." Norse anger now takes precedence over English wrath, while English no and from enjoy supremacy over Norse nay and fro. But standing side by side in modern English are Norse raise and English rear, Norse ill and English sick, as well as other such pairs as bask/bathe, skill/craft, skin/hide, and dike/ditch. As can be seen, the sk sound was most typically Old Norse, and often competed with the English sh in the same word. Thus in modern English we have such doublets as skirt/ shirt, scatter/shatter, and skip/shift, which began to diverge in meaning only with the passage of centuries.

Edit 2; Kom på att grundämnet ytterbium (Yb) är uppkallat efter den svenska staden Ytterby.

Edit 3; Alfred Nobel uppfann både dynamit och just ordet "dynamit".