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語源 1

From 中期英語 ikil, ykle, from 古期英語 *ġicol, ġiċel (“icicle, ice”), from Proto-West Germanic *jekul, *jikil, from Proto-Germanic *jekulaz (“piece of ice”), diminutive of *jekô (“lump of ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yeg-.

Cognate with Low German Jäkel (“icicle”), Danish egel (“icicle”), Norwegian Bokmål jøkel (“glacier, icesheet”), Norwegian Nynorsk jøkle (“icicle”), Norwegian Nynorsk jøkul (“glacier, icicle”), Faroese jøkul (“glacier”), Icelandic jökull (“glacier”), Swedish jökel (“glacier”) and probably Albanian akull (“ice”) (Gheg okull). Doublet of jokul.

別の表記

• eckle

名詞

ickle (plural ickles)

1. (dialectal) An icicle.

派生語

語源 2

Childish pronunciation of little.

別の表記

• ikkle

形容詞

ickle (comparative ickler, superlative icklest)

1. (childish, chiefly UK) Little. [from mid-19th c.]
   • 1917, Booth Tarkington, Seventeen:

     Izzum's ickle heart a-beatin' so floppity! Um's own mumsy make ums all right, um's p'eshus Flopit!

   • 1919, Punch:

     Wasums and didums, then? Was it a ickle birdie, then?

   • 1919, Punch:

     Did she try to hit her ickle bruzzer on his nosie-posie wiz a mug?

   • 1936, George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying:

     A Peke, the ickle angel pet, wiv his gweat big soulful eyes and his ickle black nosie — oh so ducky-duck!

アナグラム

• Celik, Elick, Leick