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dead ice

noun

Etymology

From dead + ice.

  1. derived from *h₁eyH-✻ — “ice, frost”
  2. inherited from *īsą✻ — “ice”
  3. inherited from *īs✻
  4. inherited from īs
  5. inherited from hyse
  6. compounded as dead ice — “dead + ice”

Definitions

  1. Former glacier ice that is no longer connected to the active glacier, therefore not…

    Former glacier ice that is no longer connected to the active glacier, therefore not moving, and becoming covered with sediments.

The neighborhood

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