welcome --> Velkomin!

One of my favourite things at home is my welcome sign.  Over the course of the year I'll move it over different trees in the garden and in the window in the house facing outside.  Sometimes it hangs over the front door to welcome guests as they enter the house.

My welcome sign is a VELKOMIN sign that was a gift from an Icelandic auntie in Gimli, Manitoba.  It's weathered and I've had it for 14 years and I reckon I'll have it for another 14 plus years. 

Though I don't speak Icelandic, I know that like English, it's a Germanic language.  And so it's not coincidental then that our words for "welcome" look and sound similar.

In trying to find some pronounciation for you, I found this great blog:  http://www.icelandictranslations.com/?p=1

The translator is Thor Kristinsson @thorkristinsson and I think he's pretty great
:-) at what he does.

best wishes for a happy and healthy 2011 to you!