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jökulhlaup

jökullglacier
hlauprun, sprint
glacier run

which everyone uses to mean a flood released when a volcano melts the ice above it

One of the few Icelandic words English borrowed back, unchanged, as a geology term.

weather

Literal glosses are a translator’s liberty, not a rule. This compound may have frozen centuries ago, with its pieces drifting since. If it is wrong, a correction from an Icelandic speaker is the whole point.

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