Viking

Noun

 * 1)  One of the Scandinavian seafaring warriors that raided (and then settled) the British Isles and other parts of Europe in the 8th to the 11th centuries.
 * 2)  A barbarian character with helmets adorned with horns or wings.

Derived terms

 * vike


 * viking


 * Vikingism


 * Vikingship

Thesaurus
AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Blackbeard, Captain Hook, Captain Kidd, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Henry Morgan, Jean Lafitte, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, air pirate, airplane hijacker, bluejacket, buccaneer, corsair, deep-sea man, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, hearty, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, limey, lobsterman, mariner, matelot, navigator, picaroon, pirate, privateer, rover, sailor, salt, sea dog, sea king, sea rover, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, skyjacker, tar, water dog, whaler, windjammer, windsailor

Alternative forms

 * -forms (-terminal):
 * Vikinger, vikinger
 * Vikingir, vikingir
 * Vikingr, vikingr


 * -forms (-initial, -terminal):
 * Viking, viking


 * -forms (-initial):
 * Wicking, wicking
 * Wiking, wiking

Etymology
A loan from víkingr:. Already in as wicing: and  witsing:, wising:, but extinct in Middle English and loaned anew in the 19th century.

víking#Germanic:) itself is from vík: + -ing: (the -r is the nominative desinence). Thus, “one from or who frequents the sea’s inlets”,

The Old English or  form, existing therein since at least the eighth century), could also have been derived from or influenced by   wic:,  on account of the temporary encampments which were often a prominent feature of the Vikings’ raids.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 維京人
 * Faroese: víkingur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ヴァイキング
 * Korean: 바이킹


 * Kurdish:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Norse:
 * Portuguese: viquingue
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: Mvikingi
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * West Frisian:

Proper noun

 * 1)  derived from the Swedish noun viking:, used since the 19th century.