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Etymology

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Borrowed from Austrian German Geiser, an archaic variant of Geysir, from Icelandic Geysir.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɡʲejzʲɪr]
  • IPA(key): [ˈɡʲejzɨr] (phonetic respelling: ге́йзэр)
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Noun

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ге́йзер (géjzer, géjzɛrm inan (genitive ге́йзера, nominative plural ге́йзеры, genitive plural ге́йзеров)

  1. geyser (boiling spring)

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Armenian: գեյզեր (geyzer)

References

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “гейзер”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress