nunatak
See also: Nunatak and nunataĸ
English
WOTD – 8 February 2013
![](Images/wiktionary/Starr_Nunatak-Antarctica.jpg.webp)
Starr Nunatak, on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica.
![](Images/wiktionary/Estrela_Mar%C3%A7o_2010-16b.jpg.webp)
Cântaro Magro, Serra da Estrela, Portugal, formed as nunatak during the last ice age and now exposed.
Alternative forms
- nunataq
Etymology
Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnʌn.ə.tæk/, /ˈnuː.nə.tæk/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Hyphenation: nun‧a‧tak
Noun
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, 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, 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:
- 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.
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Translations
mountaintop surrounded by glacial ice
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See also
- monadnock
Further reading
nunatak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Kuantan
Danish
Etymology
Greenlandic nunataq
Noun
nunatak
- nunatak
Declension
Declension of nunatak
common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | nunatak | nunatakken | nunatakker | nunatakkerne |
genitive | nunataks | nunatakkens | nunatakkers | nunatakkernes |
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
nunatak m (plural nunataks)
- nunatak
Further reading
- “nunatak”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nuˈna.tak/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -atak
- Syllabification: nu‧na‧tak
Noun
nunatak m inan
- (geology) nunatak
Declension
Declension of nunatak
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | nunatak | nunataki |
genitive | nunataka/nunataku | nunataków |
dative | nunatakowi | nunatakom |
accusative | nunatak | nunataki |
instrumental | nunatakiem | nunatakami |
locative | nunataku | nunatakach |
vocative | nunataku | nunataki |
Further reading
- nunatak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- nunatak in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French nunatak.
Noun
nunatak n (plural nunatakuri)
- nunatak
Declension
Declension of nunatak
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
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
- nunatak in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Slovak
Etymology
From Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈnunatak]
Noun
nunatak m (genitive singular nunataka, nominative plural nunataky, genitive plural nunatakov, declension pattern of dub)
- nunatak
Declension
Declension of nunatak
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | nunatak | nunataky |
genitive | nunataka | nunatakov |
dative | nunataku | nunatakom |
accusative | nunatak | nunataky |
locative | nunataku | nunatakoch |
instrumental | nunatakom | nunatakmi |
Further reading
- nunatak in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
Swedish
Alternative forms
- nunatack
Etymology
From Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌnʉ̟ːnaˈtak/
- Rhymes: -ak
Noun
nunatak c
- (geology) nunatak
Declension
Declension of nunatak | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | nunatak | nunataken | nunataker | nunatakerna |
Genitive | nunataks | nunatakens | nunatakers | nunatakernas |
References
- nunatak in Svensk ordbok (SO)