Meanings
alternative Reekwick
- The capital city of Iceland. Official name: Reykjavík.
A hater of town life, especially in such a town as Reekwich, and provided already with mounts, I quickly concluded terms with a promising young scholar from the Latin school, hight Geir Zoega (Jun.), for det benefit of his company on a scamper round to Hekla and the Geysir.
1879, Charles George Warnford Lock, Clement Le Neve Foster, chapter IV, in The home of the Eddas, page 58
Origin
- IcelandicReykjavík
- EnglishReekwich
Calque from Old Norse or Icelandic Reykjavík, from reykr (“smoke”) + vík (“bay”).
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