Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn icicle.
From Middle English ikil, ykle, from Old English *ġicol, ġiċel (“icicle, ice”), from Proto-West Germanic *jekul, *jikil, from Proto-Germanic *jekulaz (“piece of ice”), diminutive of *jekô (“lump of ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yeg-. Cognate with Low German Jäkel (“icicle”), Danish egel (“icicle”), Norwegian Bokmål jøkel (“glacier, icesheet”), Norwegian Nynorsk jøkul, jøkle (“glacier, icicle”), Faroese jøkul (“glacier”), Icelandic jökull (“glacier”), Swedish jökel (“glacier”) and probably Albanian akull (“ice”) (Gheg okull). Doublet of jokul.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionikilenm
- Inherited-form mention*ġicolang
- Inherited-form mention*jekulgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*jekulazgem-pro · piece of ice
- Derivation mention*h₁yeg-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionJäkelnds
- Cognate mentionegelda
- Cognate mentionjøkelnb
- Cognate mentionjøkulnn
- Cognate mentionjøkulfo
- Cognate mentionjökullis
- Cognate mentionjökelsv
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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