Term banks and glossaries

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Term banks and electronic glossaries

Two-letter language identifiers for the representation of names of languages according to the ISO 639 standard are used to indicate which languages the various sources contain.

These online-glossaries contain at least one of the Nordic languages. If you want to find glossaries and dictionaries in other languages, try Terminology Collection by Anita Nuopponen.

  • Aamenesta öylättiin
    • fi
    • Basic facts of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland.
    • By the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland.












  • OneLook Dictionary Search
    • Search service with which it is possible to search in more than 900 on-line glossaries.
  • Orðabanki
    • da, de, en, fr, is, no, sv
    • A word bank which gives an overview of the Icelandic terminology and neologisms. The purpose is to prevent the unnecessary use of different terms for one concept.
    • By the Icelandic Language Institute.






  • UHR's termbase
    • en, no
    • The Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions (UHR) has a collection of over a 1000 administrative terms in English and Norwegian. The base is focused on terminology in higher education.
    • UHR in Oslo is responsible for the base.



Printed glossaries

Printed glossaries can be found, for example, via the following web sites: