jökull

See also: Jökull and jǫkull

Icelandic

FWOTD – 3 February 2013

Etymology

From Old Norse jǫkull, from Proto-Germanic *jekulaz. Diminutive of jaki (“a piece of ice, broken ice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjœːkʏtl/

  Rhymes: -œːkʏtl

Noun

jökull m (genitive singular jökuls, nominative plural jöklar)

1. glacier
   • 1886, Benedikt Gröndal, Sagan af Heljarslóðarorrustu:

     Þar er klofsnjór á sumrum, en jökull á vetrum.

     There is hip-deep snow in summer, but glacier in winter.

Declension

Declension of jökull (masculine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	jökull	jökullinn	jöklar	jöklarnir
accusative	jökul	jökulinn	jökla	jöklana
dative	jökli	jöklinum	jöklum	jöklunum
genitive	jökuls	jökulsins	jökla	jöklanna

Hyponyms

• Vatnajökull

Derived terms

• jökulhlaup
• jökulsá

Related terms

• jaki

Descendants

• → Danish: jøkel
  • Norwegian Bokmål: jøkel
• → English: jokul
• → Swedish: jökel

Further reading

• jökull on the Icelandic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^is