dropasteinkerti (n)
“stalagmite”
Credit to Chris Luczkow on Flickr
A compound as follows:
dropi = drop
steinn = stone
kerti = candle
In succession, a “drop stone candle.” More interpretively a stalagmite is named as a sort of dripping candle of stone/dripping stone candle. When you light a candle, the wax drips until it sort of piles at the bottom, and overlaps upon itself. Stalagmites seem to resemble this precisely.
Ah, such metaphors.
Endalaus 