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Eis

Meaning

  1. (neuter, strong) ice
  2. (Austria, Germany, neuter, strong) ice cream

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Ei

  1. (neuter, strong) egg (all biological senses)
  2. (neuter, strong) something egg-shaped
  3. (informal, neuter, plural-normally, strong) testicle; ball (also figuratively)
  4. (colloquial, in-plural, neuter, strong) bucks (money)
  5. (colloquial, derogatory, mildly, neuter, strong, usually, vocative) clown; foolish bloke

Frequency

B1
Dialects

Aargau

Aargau

iisch

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

yys

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/aɪ̯s/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German īs, from Old High German īs, from Proto-West Germanic *īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from French glace.

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