Ice
/aɪs/noun
Frozen water.
Did you know?English ice comes from a Proto-Germanic word that also gave us German Eis and Dutch ijs, showing how one chill root spread across the northern languages long before modern science named freezing.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*h₁eyH-
“to freeze; cold, ice”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*īsą
“ice”
Old English
EN
īs
“ice”
Middle English
EN
is
“ice”
Modern English
EN
ice
“frozen water”