icen

动词 v. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make or become iced or icy; frost (all senses) ambitransitive
    — Ole Becky ain't got much to give but her blessin', but I can cook yet, and I done made you a big spice cake apiece, and icened it with icin' an inch thick.
形容词 adj.
  1. Made of or consisting of ice. not-comparable
    — When winter's cutting gales swept fierce and free Down th'wide upland plains of pilëd snow, I loved to wade across the windy lea To see the lake far-paved with icen floe, […]

词形变化

icens present,singular,third-person icening participle,present icened participle,past icened past

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-so-der.
Proto-Germanic *īsą
Proto-West Germanic *īs
Old English īs
Middle English is
English ice
English -en
English icen
From ice + -en (“to become like”).
词源 2
From Middle English isen, ysen, equivalent to ice + -en (“made of”).
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