ice

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Water that has frozen into a hard, cold solid.

   Americans like to put ice in their drinks.

2. 2
   verb

   To cover something with ice, or to make it very cold.

   A thin layer of frost iced the windows overnight.

3. 3
   noun

   A frozen surface used for skating or ice hockey.

   The crowd cheered when the players skated onto the ice.

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Simplified etymology

Ice is an Old English word. Its literal sense later produced several figurative and specialized uses: coldness of manner by Shakespeare’s time, diamonds in late-19th-century American slang, and crystal meth in the late 20th century. Ice also became a shortened form of ice cream in the mid-18th century and inspired icing from the resemblance of white sugar coating to frozen ice.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-so-der. Proto-Germanic *īsą Proto-West Germanic *īs Old English īs Middle English is English ice From Middle English hyse, hyys, ice, ijs, is, yce, ys, yys, from Old English īs, from Proto-West Germanic *īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsą (“ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- (“ice, frost”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian Iis, is (“ice”), Saterland Frisian Ies (“ice”), West Frisian iis (“ice”), Alemannic German Iis, isch, éisch (“ice”), Bavarian, Cimbrian, and Mòcheno ais (“ice”), Dutch ijs (“ice”), German Eis (“ice”), Ge…

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