is

Danish

/iːs/

noun
Definitions
  • (uncountable) ice (water in frozen form)
  • (uncountable) ice, ice cream (dessert, not necessarily containing cream)
  • (countable) ice, ice cream (ice dessert on a stick or in a wafer cone)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse íss inherited from Proto-Germanic *īsą (ice) derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- (frost, icicle, ice, icefloe).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*h₁eyH-

Gloss

frost, icicle, ice, icefloe

Concept
Semantic Field

Sense perception

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

Emoji

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