From Old Norse jǫkull, from Proto-Germanic *jekulaz. Diminutive of jaki (“a piece of ice, broken ice”).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈjœːkʏtl/

  Rhymes: -œːkʏtl

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.

• Vatnajökull

• jökulhlaup
• jökulsá

• jaki

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

• jökull on the Icelandic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^is