Etymology

jokul

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Today it means: A mountain covered with ice and snow, a snow mountain. Full definition →

Icelandic jökull
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The story

  1. Icelandic · borrowed fromjökull“glacier”
  2. English todayjokul

From Icelandic jökull (“glacier”). Doublet of ickle.

Words from the same roots

Icelandicjökull all →

yokul

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.