In chapter 14 of The Silmarillion, Tolkien calls this hill 'Himring, the Ever-cold', which looks like at least a partial translation. This presumably comes from the word him, meaning 'steadfast' or 'abiding', alongside ring, 'cold'.
In his linguistic appendix to The Silmarillion, however, Christopher Tolkien tentatively interprets the him element as meaning 'cool'. While 'cool-cold' seems a rather redundant placename, it could in principle derive from Himlad ('cool plain'), the land to the immediate southwest (making the name Himring a shortening of 'cold hill on the cool plain'). |