Does the notion of "Nordic countries" exist in your language?

[Comte Arnau]

Dictionary of the Catalan Language

nòrdic -a

1 adj. [LC] [FL] Relatiu o pertanyent als pobles germànics del nord d’Europa i a llurs llengües.
1. Related to or belonging to the Germanic peoples of the North of Europe and their languages.
2 adj. i m. [FL] Escandinau.
2. Scandinavian.

The Great Catalan Dictionary and the Catalan-Valencian-Balearic Dictionary say more or less the same. No mention of 'Nordic appearances' whatsoever.

[Tony]

Paesi nordici here means mostly Scandinavia but sometimes broadly everything above the Alps (for those who are at the Southern tip of Europe almost everything is Nordic...).
Nordici=the Nordics, who live in the Nordic countries.
Nordisti=derogative/sarcastic gergal form when one want to label Nordics as obtuse, bigoted and closed among themselves.

[beaver]

Whiteruthenian wrote"

Нордический?

is equal to "арийский (arya)", e.g. (нордический дух/spirir = арийский дух), also, in the very, very popular serial - they are constanlty reading files of SSmen (dont know how it would be right) -e.g. "Kaltenbrunner, true arijets (true arya, in Russin its getting "arijets") ....bla-bla-bla...... the nature is Nordic (sounds: "натура нордическая").

[Seeker]

in greek --> "Βόρειες Χώρες" , that stands for "Northern Countries"

[lI]

Does the notion of "Nordic countries" exist in your language?

Google gives only one result for "нардычныя краіны" and zero for "нардычныя краі". No such expression in the Belarusian language.

No such expression in Lithuanian either. Whenever we refer to the Nordic countries, the term Scandinavian ("Skandinavija", "Skandinavų šalys") is used most often in everyday language - Finland&Iceland are usually included in that term.


Technically, the term for the Nordic countries is "Šiaurės Šalys" but that literally only means "Northern countries" (Šiaurė = "north") and in everyday language that expression can also include Britain and/or the Baltic countries.

[Smaug]

Yes: Países Nórdicos, literally "Nordic Countries".

[MissProvocateur]

Sure. Países Nórdicos.

[member]

No.

We do not have a word which would sound similar to "nord".

Only Nothern Europe (Šiaurės Europa) and Skandinavija. English wiki page for Nordic countries is translated as Šiaurės Europa.

So, we do not have one word which would include all Nordic council countries (Scandinavia + Iceland + Finalnd).

[kwestos]

Similar in Poland, mostly used term is 'Scandinavian' and applies to No,Se,Fi,De and Iceland (those countries are all lumped together and whats funny their flags are al the same design just different colours, which makes the association even stronger)
The term 'nordic' is in use only in more proffessional press or debates, there is also pejorative term 'nordic race' which is associated with Nazi propaganda, so an average person in the street would probably rather think of it.

[Didriksson]

Ziemeļvalstis

Ziemeļi (ziemelji) = north
Valsts = country

http://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zieme%C4%BCvalstis