iceborne

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adjective

Borne from, carried in, or transported by ice.

OriginEnglish ice ← Middle English is ← Old English īs →
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Meanings

adjectiveiceborne (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBorne from, carried in, or transported by ice.

    By 15 million years ago, layers of iceborne sand and gravel point to widespread freezing.

    2005 May, Tim Appenzeller, “Great Green North”, in National Geographic, page 27
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    Even icebergs may have played their part in carrying plants to the Azores […] Mr. Hartung found fragments of rock in the Azores which he regarded as erratics of iceborne origin.

    1877, Sir Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, page 424

    The iceborne fragments are of all sizes, from mere pebbles up to blocks over 12 feet in length.

    1908, William Page, The Victoria History of the County of Safford, page 28

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁eyH-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁eyH-so-
  3. Proto-Germanic*īsą
  4. Proto-West Germanic*īs
  5. Old Englishīs
  6. Middle Englishis
  7. Englishice
  8. Englishiceborne

From ice + -borne.

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Chicago

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