Swedish

From Swede +‎ -ish. Cognate with Dutch Zweeds, German Schwedisch.

• enPR: swē'dĭsh, IPA^(key): /ˈswiː.dɪʃ/

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• Homophone: sweetish (flapping)

Swedish (countable and uncountable, plural Swedishes)

1. The language of Sweden and Åland (an autonomous part of Finland). Swedish is also one of the two official languages of Finland, spoken by 6% of the citizens. A very small minority in Estonia has Swedish as their mother tongue.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Swedish.

• East Scandinavian
• East Scandinavian language

• Old Swedish

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Swedish terms
• Appendix:Swedish Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Swedish

• “Swedish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• ISO 639-1 code sv, ISO 639-3 code swe (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Swedish, swe ⁠

Swedish (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to Sweden.
2. Of or pertaining to the Swedish language.

• East Scandinavian

• swished