jǫkull

See also: jökull and Jökull

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *jekulaz, diminutive of jaki, so akin to jaki +‎ -ill.

Noun

jǫkull m (genitive jǫkuls, plural jǫklar)

1. icicle
2. ice
3. glacier

Declension

Declension of jǫkull (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	jǫkull	jǫkullinn	jǫklar	jǫklarnir
accusative	jǫkul	jǫkulinn	jǫkla	jǫklana
dative	jǫkli	jǫklinum	jǫklum	jǫklunum
genitive	jǫkuls	jǫkulsins	jǫkla	jǫklanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: jökull
  • → Danish: jøkel
    • Norwegian Bokmål: jøkel
  • → English: jokul
  • → Swedish: jökel
• Faroese: jøkul, jøkil
• Norwegian Nynorsk: jøkul, jøkle; (dialectal) jukul
• Old Swedish: īkil
  • Swedish: ickel (dialectal)
• Old Danish: egle

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “jökull”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 234; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857

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