English
icestorm
From ice + storm.
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-Germanic *staurijaną ‘to destroy, disturb’
Proto-Germanic *sturmaz ‘storm’
Proto-West Germanic *sturm ‘storm’
Old English storm ‘tempest, storm’
Middle English storm
English storm
Today it means
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Etymograph / icestorm