What English word derives from an Icelandic location?

The English word geyser derives from Icelandic Geysir, name of a specific hot spring in the valley of Haukadal in central Iceland, literally the gusher.

Foreign writers thought it was the generic name for spouting hot springs and have been using it as such since 1780!

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