Meaning
- (neuter, strong) ice
- (Austria, Germany, neuter, strong) ice cream
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Ei
- (neuter, strong) egg (all biological senses)
- (neuter, strong) something egg-shaped
- (informal, neuter, plural-normally, strong) testicle; ball (also figuratively)
- (colloquial, in-plural, neuter, strong) bucks (money)
- (colloquial, derogatory, mildly, neuter, strong, usually, vocative) clown; foolish bloke
Concepts
brittienglannissa joskus myös ice
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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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