English

icemaker

From ice + maker.

A compound of ice + maker

Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- ‘ice’

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Proto-Germanic *īsą

Proto-West Germanic *īs

Old English īs

Middle English hyse

English ice

Old English macian ‘to perform or carry out (a miracle)’

Middle English maken ‘to make or create’

Middle English maker ‘God as creator of all’

English maker

Today it means

noun A device found in a freezer that is used to make ice.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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