Meaning

noun water frozen in the solid state

verb decorate with frosting

noun the frozen part of a body of water

originFrom 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…

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