nunatak
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Starr Nunatak, on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. 
Cântaro Magro, Serra da Estrela, Portugal, formed as nunatak during the last ice age and now exposed.
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnʌn.ə.tæk/, /ˈnuː.nə.tæk/
Audio (Southern England): (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.
- 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, 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
mountaintop surrounded by glacial ice
See also
Further reading
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Noun
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)
Further reading
- “nunatak”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation
Noun
nunatak m inan
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 Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
nunatak n (plural nunatakuri)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | nunatak | nunatakul | nunatakuri | nunatakurile | |
| genitive-dative | nunatak | nunatakului | nunatakuri | nunatakurilor | |
| vocative | nunatakule | nunatakurilor | |||
References
- nunatak in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Slovak
Etymology
Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation
Noun
nunatak m inan
Declension
Declension of nunatak (pattern dub)
Further reading
- “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, 2003–2024
Swedish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Greenlandic nunataq.
Pronunciation
Noun
nunatak c
Declension
Declension of nunatak