different between rocky vs nunatak

English

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [????ki?]
• (UK) enPR: r?k'i, IPA^(key): /???ki/, [????ki?]
• (US) IPA^(key): [????ki]
• Rhymes: -?ki

Etymology 1

From rock (“to move back and forth”) +? -y.

Adjective

rocky (comparative rockier or more rocky, superlative rockiest or most rocky)

1. Unstable; easily rocked.

2. In the style of rock music.

   His new album is quite rocky.

3. (figuratively) Troubled; or difficult; in danger or distress.

   Their relationship had weathered some rocky times, but they loved each other.

Derived terms

• rockily
• rockiness
• rocky chair

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rokky, equivalent to rock (“stone”) +? -y.

Adjective

rocky (comparative rockier or more rocky, superlative rockiest or most rocky)

1. Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks.

   a rocky mountain

   a rocky shore

2. Like a rock.

   the rocky orb of a shield

3. (figuratively) Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• corky

English

Alternative forms

• nunataq

Etymology

Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?n?tæk/, /?nu?n?tæk/
• Hyphenation: nun?a?tak

Noun

nunatak (plural nunataks or nunataker)

1. 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. [from 1870s]

Translations

See also

• monadnock

Further reading

• nunatak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kuantan

Danish

Etymology

Greenlandic nunataq

Noun

nunatak

1. nunatak

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

From Greenlandic nunataq.

Noun

nunatak m (genitive singular nunataka, nominative plural nunataky, genitive plural nunatakov, declension pattern of dub)

1. nunatak

Declension

Swedish

Alternative forms

• nunatack

Etymology

From Greenlandic nunataq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n???na?tak/
• Rhymes: -ak

Noun

nunatak c

1. (geology) nunatak

Declension

References

• nunatak in Svensk ordbok (SO)