The following is a list of Icelandic
exonym
An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, ...
s, that is to say names for places in
Icelandic that have been adapted to Icelandic
spelling
Spelling is a set of conventions that regulate the way of using graphemes (writing system) to represent a language in its written form. In other words, spelling is the rendering of speech sound (phoneme) into writing (grapheme). Spelling is one ...
rules, translated into Icelandic, or
Old Norse exonyms
The Norse people traveled abroad as Vikings and Varangians.
As such, they often named the locations and peoples they visited with Old Norse words unrelated to the local endonyms.
Some of these names have been acquired from sagas, runestones or ...
surviving in Icelandic. Commonly pronunciation is close to in English (or native), even though not stated below, but also commonly completely different, more common if names look very different or for European/Nordic places.
See also
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List of European exonyms {{Short description, none
Below is a list with links to further Wikipedia-pages containing lists of exonyms of various European languages for villages, towns, and cities in Europe.
* Albanian exonyms
* Basque exonyms
* Bulgarian exonyms
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Old Norse exonyms
The Norse people traveled abroad as Vikings and Varangians.
As such, they often named the locations and peoples they visited with Old Norse words unrelated to the local endonyms.
Some of these names have been acquired from sagas, runestones or ...
References
* ''Íslensk orðabók'' (2003). Edited by Mörður Árnason.
Icelandic Language Center:Country names
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Exonyms
An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, o ...
Exonyms
An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, o ...
Lists of exonyms
Linguistic purism in Icelandic