English

icewell

From ice + well.

A compound of ice + well

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 *wela

Old English wel ‘well’

Middle English wel ‘well’

English well

Today it means

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