nunatak
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nunatak (plural nunataks or nunataker)
- A mountain top or rocky element of a ridge that is surrounded by glacial ice but is not covered by ice; a peak protruding from the surface ice sheet. [from 1870s]
- 1922, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913[1], volume 2, Constable and Company Ltd., page 365:
- We made for a slope close to the end of the island or nunatak, where Shackleton must have got up also; it is obviously the only place when you look at it from a commanding rise.
- 2008, Andrea M. J. Coronato, Fernando Coronato, Elizabeth Mazzoni, Miriam Vásquez, “The Physical Geography of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego”, in J. Rabassa, editor, The Late Cenozoic of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego[2], Elsevier, →ISBN, page 45:
- Only a few lichens and mosses colonize the rocky walls of cirques and nunataks.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 155:
- The peak in whose lee you have chosen to set up your command post is far too regular in shape to be the nunatak you imagine it.
Translations edit
mountaintop surrounded by glacial ice
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Further reading edit
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Danish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
nunatak
Declension edit
Declension of nunatak
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | nunatak | nunatakken | nunatakker | nunatakkerne |
genitive | nunataks | nunatakkens | nunatakkers | nunatakkernes |
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
nunatak m (plural nunataks)
Further reading edit
- “nunatak”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nunatak m inan
Declension edit
Declension of nunatak
singular | plural | |
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nominative | nunatak | nunataki |
genitive | nunataka/nunataku | nunataków |
dative | nunatakowi | nunatakom |
accusative | nunatak | nunataki |
instrumental | nunatakiem | nunatakami |
locative | nunataku | nunatakach |
vocative | nunataku | nunataki |
Further reading edit
- nunatak in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
nunatak n (plural nunatakuri)
Declension edit
Declension of nunatak
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) nunatak | nunatakul | (niște) nunatakuri | nunatakurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) nunatak | nunatakului | (unor) nunatakuri | nunatakurilor |
vocative | nunatakule | nunatakurilor |
References edit
Slovak edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nunatak m inan (genitive singular nunataka, nominative plural nunataky, genitive plural nunatakov, declension pattern of dub)
Declension edit
Declension of nunatak
Further reading edit
- “nunatak”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Swedish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nunatak c
Declension edit
Declension of nunatak | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | nunatak | nunataken | nunataker | nunatakerna |
Genitive | nunataks | nunatakens | nunatakers | nunatakernas |