English

icefloe

From ice + floe.

A compound of ice + floe

Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- ‘ice’

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Proto-Germanic *īsą

Proto-West Germanic *īs

Old English īs

Middle English hyse

English ice

Norwegian Nynorsk flo ‘layer, slab’

English floe

Today it means

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