Name Element
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Origin and Meaning
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Glacier (here: Jostedalsbreen/Norway)
Image by "Donar Reiskoffer",[1] licensed under Creative Commons |
New name element
Old Norse
jǫkull = 'ice, icicle, glacier' [2] [3]
Old Swedish
ikil = 'ice, icicle, glacier' [3]
Old High German
ichil = 'ice, icicle, glacier' [3]
Low German
jäckel = 'ice, icicle, glacier' [3]
Old English
ġicel = 'ice, icicle, glacier' [3]
Related Names
See Jǫkull
Combinations
First Element Forms
Jökl-
Jökul-
References
- ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by "Donar Reiskoffer", source & license
- ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)