How to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull

How to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull (1,5 minutes)

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Eyjafjallajökull

The Eyjafjalljökull is a glacier situated on the mountain range called Eyjafjöll at the Southern coast of Iceland.

Morphology

The word Eyjafjallajökull contains three elements:

ey or eyja island: eyja is the genetive plural.
fjall mountain: fjalla is the genetive plural.
jökull glacier

Eyjafjallajökull means island-mountain-glacier.

If you want to use this word in English, don't use Eyjafjalla-glacier but Eyjafjöll-glacier, because Eyjafjöll is the nominative case, whereas Eyjafjalla- is the genitive plural which is needed in Icelandic morphology to build composite words.

Pronounciation

Phonological transcription:

How to pronounce Eyjafjallajokull? Phonetic pronunciation transcript according to IPA.

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