Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Molten material, the product of melting. · The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state. · The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions. · A melt sandwich.
To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. · To dissolve, disperse, vanish. · To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken. · To be discouraged.
From Middle English melten, from a merger of Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from Proto-West Germanic *meltan and *maltijan, from Proto-Germanic *meltaną and *maltijaną, both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to digest”).
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