lemÌc. Lemizh grammar and dictionary

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jmàx.

to make ice, (of water or bodies of water) to freeze

Etymology

gender change of
NLem jem‑a
LMLem jèm‑yr
MLem jeem‑yr
OLem jēm‑
PLem *gjēom‑
PIE *g̑ʰéi̯om‑s ‘winter’

Gender change comes from the fact that ice is a form of water and thus (poetically) male; see also zmÌs. ‘hail’.

Cognates

Lat hiems ‘winter’, Cro zima ‘winter, frost’