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Being Norwegian, I've found that quite a few Icelandic words are just brilliantly descriptive. I just learned another one; leikskoli. Beats our 'barnehage' for

• meheleventyone 7y ago
  Interestingly we’d call it playschool in the UK as well. Kindergarten in the English context seems way more of a US thing.
• rlonn 7y ago
  Almost the same in swedish: lekskola (or "lekis") and dagskola ("dagis") but they have now been replaced by the more pretentious "förskola" as we like to be pretentious over here. "barnhage" is a small cage you put toddlers in so they can't escape - makes sense you guys use that word for kindergarten ;)
  • lb1lf 7y ago
    Ooh, ze plot thickens. We call that little cage a 'lekegrind'. Førskole is a bridge between kindergarten and primary school - typically a few hours a week for the last few months in kindergarten. We've been pretentious at least since I attended førskole some 35 years ago! Hah! :)