## Meanings
1. To turn from solid into liquid, usually because of heat.
2. To gradually disappear or fade away.
3. To be filled with warm, tender feelings.

## Examples
- I melted some butter in the pan to make the sauce.
- His anger melted away as soon as he saw her smile.
- She melted when she read the loving message in the card.

## Derived Forms
- brain-melting
- deadmelt
- face-melting
- formelt
- high-melting
- hotmelt
- icemelt
- low-melting
- meld
- meltability
- meltable
- meltage

## Related Forms
- smelt

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *(s)meld-
- Root: melten
- Root: meltan
- Root: *meltan
- Root: *meltaną

## Etymology
From Middle English melten, from a merger of Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from Proto-West Germanic *meltan and *maltijan, from Proto-Germanic *meltaną and *maltijaną, both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to digest”).

## AI Etymology
Melt comes from Middle English melten, from a merger of Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from Proto-West Germanic *meltan and *maltijan, from Proto-Germanic *meltaną and *maltijaną, both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to digest”). In present-day English its meanings include to turn from solid into liquid, usually because of heat, to gradually disappear or fade away, and to be filled with warm, tender feelings. The historical chain runs through *(s)meld- (Proto-Indo-European), melten (Middle English), meltan (Old English), *meltan (Proto-West Germanic), and *meltaną (Proto-Germanic).

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