icicle

Senso (Inglese)

A drooping, tapering shape of ice.

Concetti

ghiacciolo

cannello di ghiaccio

sinonimi

ice

🧊

crystal

cut glass

hoarfrost

ice cube

🧊

rime

aloofness

snow

❄️

Traduzioni

Eiszapfen

glaçon

carámbano

ijspegel

caramell

ijskegel

pegel

stiria

buz saçağı

stalactite

candela

🕯️

παγοκρύσταλλος

pingente de gelo

stīria

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈʌɪsəkəl/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: isykle

Ereditato da inglese antico: īsġicel

Affine saterfriesisch: Iesjuukel

Affine danese: jisegel

Affine norvegese: isjukel

Affine Elfdalian: aisikkel

In summary

From Middle English isykle, isikel, from Old English *īsġicel, from Proto-West Germanic *īsajikil, *īsajekul, equivalent to ice + ickle. It was assimilated to nouns in -icle, from Latin -iculus—the expected spelling would have -ickle. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Iesjuukel (“icicle”), German Low German Iesjökel, dialectal Danish jisegel (“icicle”), Norwegian isjukel (“icicle”) and Elfdalian aisikkel.