transistorxiii:

“When the University of Iceland got its first computer in 1964, Icelandic did not have a word for “computer.” So the guardians of the language invented one: tölva—a fusion of tala (number) and völva (prophetess) that adds up to the wonderfully poetic “prophetess of numbers.”

— https://gizmodo.com/icelandic-has-the-best-words-for-technology-1702697272