List of English words of Scandinavian origin

This is a list of English words that are probably of modern Scandinavian origin. This list excludes words borrowed directly from Old Norse; for those, see list of English words of Old Norse origin.

English words of Scandinavian origin

aquavit, "a clear Scandinavian liquor flavored with caraway seeds"
brisling, "sprat"
fjord, "a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes"
flense, "to strip of blubber or skin"
floe, "floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water"
gravlax, "salmon cured especially with salt, sugar, pepper, and dill and often additional ingredients "
klister, "a soft wax used on skis"
krill, "planktonic crustaceans and their larvae that constitute the principal food of baleen whales"
lemming, "any of various small short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution that are notable for population fluctuations and recurrent mass migrations"
lefse, "a large thin potato pancake served buttered and folded"
lutefisk, "dried codfish that has been soaked in a water and lye solution before cooking"
murk, "gloom, darkness; c. 1300, myrke, from Old Norse myrkr 'darkness,' from Proto-Germanic *merkwjo, Danish mǿrk 'darkness',"
murky, "dark, obscure, gloomy; mid-14c., from murk + -y,"
scrike, "shriek"
ski, "one of a pair of narrow strips of wood, metal, or plastic curving upward in front that are used especially for gliding over snow"
slalom, "skiing in a zigzag or wavy course between upright obstacles "
telemark, "a turn in skiing in which the outside ski is advanced considerably ahead of the other ski and then turned inward at a steadily widening angle until the turn is complete"
torsk, "codfish"