The word acre is derived from Old English æcer originally meaning " open field ", cognate to west coast Norwegian ækre and Swedish åker, German Acker, Dutch akker, Latin ager, and Greek αγρός ( agros ).

The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

The word black comes from Old English blæc (" black, dark ", also, " ink "), from Proto-Germanic * blakkaz (" burned "), from Proto-Indo-European * bhleg-(" to burn, gleam, shine, flash "), from base * bhel-(" to shine "), related to Old Saxon blak (" ink "), Old High German blah (" black "), Old Norse blakkr (" dark "), Dutch blaken (" to burn "), and Swedish bläck (" ink ").

For example in Sweden, the Swedish word totalförsvar refers to the commitment of a wide range of resources of the nation to its defense-including to civil protection.

The distribution of stød in the lexicon is clearly related to the distribution of the common Scandinavian tonal word accents found in most dialects of Norwegian and Swedish, including the national standard languages.

Other languages also have a separate word for a full day, such as vuorokausi in Finnish, ööpäev in Estonian, dygn in Swedish, døgn in Danish, døgn in Norwegian, sólarhringur in Icelandic, etmaal in Dutch, doba in Polish, сутки ( sutki ) in Russian, суткі ( sutki ) in Belarusian, доба ́ ( doba ) in Ukrainian, денонощие in Bulgarian and יממה in Hebrew.

The term " trap ", used in geology for such rock formations, is derived from the Swedish word for stairs and refers to the step-like hills forming the landscape of the region.

The word friend itself has cognates in the other Germanic languages ; but the Scandinavian ones ( like Swedish frände, Danish frænde ) predominatly mean " relative " ( but may also mean soulmate ).

In another example, the word bra in the Swedish language means " good ", as in " a good song ", " a good book " or " Good day!

Another example is the word gift, which in English and Dutch means a " present " but in German and the Scandinavian languages means " poison " ( the Swedish word for " gift " being gåva, related to the verb " to give ").

The German word for English " knight " is Ritter, the Dutch ridder, the Swedish riddare, which is the cognate of English " rider "-but which carries vast social implications absent from the English word.

The German word Land is the exact cognate of English land but it carries many political, constitutional, and historical meanings absent from the English term ( among other things a constituent state of the German Federal Republic, historically a principality of the Holy Roman Empire, but also " rural " as opposed to " urban ", etc .— the Swedish lantis equating to " country bumpkin " or " hick "— most of these meanings are borne by the Anglo-Norman word country in English ).

On the other hand, the Dutch word for " uncommon " is zeldzaam, while the German word seltsam ( Swedish sällsam ) means " strange ".

The word is continued in German Deutsch ( meaning German ), English " Dutch ", Dutch Duits and Diets ( the latter referring to the historic name for Dutch or Middle Dutch, the former meaning German ), Italian tedesco ( meaning German ), Swedish / Danish / Norwegian tysk ( meaning German ) and Middle Low German dudesch meaning both Low German and the whole of Dutch / German / Low German, as well its descendant, modern Low German dütsch, meaning only Standard High German.

Few personal computers used the 80186, with some notable exceptions: the Australian Dulmont Magnum laptop, one of the first laptops ; the Wang Office Assistant, marketed as a PC-like stand-alone word processor ; the Mindset ; the Siemens PC-D ( not 100 % IBM PC-compatible but using MS-DOS 2. 11: de: Siemens PC-D ); the Compis ( a Swedish school computer ); the RM Nimbus ( a British school computer ); the Unisys ICON ( a Canadian school computer ); ORB Computer by ABS ; the HP 100LX, HP 200LX, HP 1000CX and HP OmniGo 700LX ; the Tandy 2000 desktop ( a somewhat PC-compatible workstation with sharp graphics for its day ); the Philips: YES ; the Nokia MikroMikko 2.

The word " kludge " is, according to Burling, derived from the same root as the German " klug " ( Dutch kloog, Swedish Klag, Danish Klog, Gothic Klaugen, Lettish Kladnis and Sanskrit Veklaunn ), originally meaning " smart " or " witty ".

Others trace the word to Varangians and derive it from the Swedish knutpiska, a kind of whip with knots.

This means that the spoken language in this part of Sweden is descended from a regional variant of Danish, while the written language used is standard Swedish, which evolved in Uppsala and Stockholm.

" The root also appears in Old Saxon fri which means " beloved lady ", in Swedish as fria (" to propose for marriage ") and in Icelandic as frjá which means " to love.

In Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, gift means " poison " but also " married ".

In Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, " gift " also means ' married ', in the sense ' given in marriage '.

Additionally, in some languages a " concourse " ( Swedish konkurs, Finnish konkurssi, German Konkurs ) takes its meaning from " concourse of debtors "; that is, it means bankruptcy, while in Russian конкурс takes one more meaning and refers to contest.

Likewise, in the context of corporations, German Konzern, Swedish koncern and Finnish konserni means " conglomerate ", not " concern ".

' Rare ' in English means " uncommon ", while raar in Dutch means " strange ", and similarly rar in Swedish means " rare " (" sällsynt ", SAOL ) as well as the more common meaning " nice ", " cute ", " dear " or " sweet ", but in neighboring Norwegian: " peculiar " or " awkward ".

After the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658, the Scanian lands came under the possession of the Swedish Crown, which quickly founded the Lund University in 1666 as a means of Swedification.

They are commonly used by Danish, Dutch and Swedish websites, because in those languages ' nu ' means “ now ”.

Other ideas are behind the German expressions formelles Recht ( or Prozeßrecht ) and materielles Recht as well as the French droit formel / droit matériel, the Italian diritto formale / diritto material and the Swedish formell rätt / materiell rätt ; all of which, taken literally, means " formal " and " material " law.

The Swedish term used is län, which literally means " fief ".

The Finnish name of the town means " Castle of Savonia " and the Swedish name means " Newcastle ".

By the era of Early Modern English, the mole was also known in English as mouldywarp, a word having cognates in other Germanic languages such as German ( Maulwurf ), and Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Icelandic ( muldvarp, mullvad, moldvarpa ), where the muld / mull / mold part of the word means soil and the varp / vad / varpa part means throw, hence " one who throws soil " or " dirt tosser ".

According to Douglas Harper, the Swedish terms originated from "( trampcykel med ) mo ( tor och ) ped ( aler )", which means " pedal cycle with engine and pedals " ( the earliest versions had auxiliary pedals ).

The Swedish title was Romy & Michele: Blondiner har roligare (" Romy & Michele: Blondes have more fun "), while in Denmark it is simply called Blondiner har det sjovere (" Blondes have more fun ").

Skoj is the Swedish word for fun.

Followed in her fathers ( Gösta Jeppsson ) footsteps with then boyfriend Conny Strandberg as they raced in the final Swedish Championship of 1997 just for the fun of it.

Jake Gyllenhaal, great-great grandson of the above-mentioned Anders Leonard Gyllenhaal, joked to an interviewer, in connection with the British première of the movie Prince of Persia in May 2010, that his last name was pronounced " Yil-en-hoo-luh-hay ", poking fun at people's difficulties with Swedish pronunciation.

Among the candidates for a living descendant of the Adamic language were: Gaelic ( see Auraicept na n-Éces ); Tuscan ( Giovanni Battista Gelli, 1542, Piero Francesco Giambullari, 1564 ); Dutch ( Goropius Becanus, 1569, Abraham Mylius, 1612 ); Swedish ( Olaus Rudbeck, 1675 ); German ( Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, 1641, Schottel, 1641 ) The Swedish physician Andreas Kempe wrote a satirical tract in 1688, where he made fun of the contest between the European nationalists to claim their native tongue as the Adamic language.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

On his father's side he was of German descent, on his mother's he came of the old Swedish nobility.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.

Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893.

The first surviving edition ( bilingual Swedish – Esperanto ) was published in Sweden in 2003.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

In 1827 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.

In 1864, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The concept of allotropy was originally proposed in 1841 by the Swedish scientist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius ( 1779 – 1848 ).

His promotion of it was so extensive that he is often credited with its invention, even though a machine operating in the same principle was described in 1762 by Swedish professor Johan Wilcke.

* When 2000 was approaching, at least three large Swedish magazines ranked penicillin as the most important discovery of the millennium.

This replica was discovered in a cave by a Swedish German missionary named Harald von Sicard in the 1940s and eventually found its way to the Museum of Human Science in Harare.

This attempted to prove that Sweden was Atlantis, the cradle of civilization, and Swedish the original language of Adam from which Latin and Hebrew had evolved.

Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

Anders Celsius ( 27 November 1701 – 25 April 1744 ) was a Swedish astronomer.

For years it was simply referred to as the Swedish thermometer.

Celsius conducted many geographical measurements for the Swedish General map, and was one of earliest to note that much of Scandinavia is slowly rising above sea level, a continuous process which has been occurring since the melting of the ice from the latest ice age.

He supported the formation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm in 1739 by Linnaeus and five others, and was elected a member at the first meeting of this academy.

* In addition, Finnish, a Baltic-Finnic language, has calqued the Swedish term as Itämeri " East Sea ", disregarding the geography ( the sea is west of Finland ), though understandably since Finland was a part of Sweden from the Middle Ages until 1809.

The Swedish Minister for Integration and Gender Equality, Nyamko Sabuni, was born in Burundi.

The musical was based on The Emigrants novels by Swedish writer Vilhelm Moberg.