English
ice shove
From ice + shove, in reference to ice being shoved onto shore, and shoving items on shore further inland.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- ‘ice’
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Proto-Germanic *īsą
Proto-West Germanic *īs
Old English īs
Middle English hyse
English ice
Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-
Proto-Germanic *skeubaną ‘to push, drive’
Proto-West Germanic *skeuban ‘to push, to drive’
Old English sċūfan ‘to push, shove’
Middle English schouven ‘to shove’
English shove
The story
From ice + shove, in reference to ice being shoved onto shore, and shoving items on shore further inland.
Today it means
noun A phenomenon which occurs at the interface of land and water, when partially frozen-over bodies of water with broken ice encounter a constant wind that blows onto shore, blowing the pieces of ice onto shore, which pile up and drive further inland, potentially crushing shoreside buildings or pushing them off their foundations.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / ice shove