icicle
意味
- つらら
例文
Look! There's a big icicle being created.
見て！軒下に大きな氷柱ができてるよ。
Icicles hang from the roof of the house.
氷柱が家の屋根から垂れ下がってるよ。
A man was killed by a falling icicle.
氷柱の落下により、一人の男性が死亡しました。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English isykle, isikel, from Old English *īsġicel, from Proto-West Germanic *īsajikil, *īsajekul, equivalent to ice + ickle. It was assimilated to nouns in -icle, from Latin -iculus—the expected spelling would have -ickle. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Iesjuukel (“icicle”), German Low German Iesjökel, dialectal Danish jisegel (“icicle”), Norwegian isjukel (“icicle”) and Elfdalian aisikkel.