Hyphenation
gey·serTurkish pronunciation
gayzırPronunciation
/ˈgīzər/ /ˈɡaɪzɜr/
Etymology
[ 'gI-z&r, British someti ] (noun.) 1780. From around 1755-1765, from the Icelandic proper name Geysir, which means and is the name of a hot spring in Iceland (Geysir’s English Wikipedia article). The word geysir literally means gusher, derived from the Icelandic verb geysa (“to gush”), descended from Old Norse geysa (“to gush”).