List of English words of Swedish origin

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This is a list of English language words borrowed from the Swedish language. Some may be from other Scandinavian languages such as Danish or Norwegian, or may come from Old Norse when it was a single language.

ångström, often written as "angstrom", (after the Swedish scientist Anders Jonas Ångström)
fartlek "speed-play", technique used in running^[1]
glögg, (Swedish term for mulled wine)^{[citation needed]}
gravlax literally meaning "grave salmon", salmon preserved originally underground.
lek, (from the Swedish leka, "to play")^[2]
lingonberry, from lingon
moped
orienteering^[3]
smorgasbord (from the Swedish smörgåsbord, literally "sandwich table"), which in Swedish only refers to a buffet with very specific types of food
surströmming
trapp basalts, or "trapps" stair-shaped rock formations (from the Swedish trappor, "stairs")
tungsten literally "heavy stone", refers in Swedish to a mineral containing tungsten and not the metal itself (Swedish volfram)
yrast a technical term in nuclear physics that refers to a state of a nucleus with a minimum of energy for a given angular momentum
Ombudsman a person who acts as a trusted intermediary between an organization and some internal or external constituency while representing not only but mostly the broad scope of constituent interests.

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