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Farefare
Noun
iis
- ice
Latin
Pronunciation
Pronoun
iīs
- dative/ablative plural of is, ea, and id
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian īs, from Proto-West Germanic *īs.
Pronunciation
Noun
iis n (no plural)
- ice
1981, H. Twerda, Fan Fryslâns ferline: Fertelboek foar it Fryske folk, A.J. Osinga, →ISBN, page 7:Sa bedarre de noardlike helte fan Nederlân ûnder it iis.- The northern half of the Netherlands ended up under the ice.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “iis”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011