Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thawless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: thaw-less
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

eternally frozen; not prone to thaw

Example Sentences

"An Arctic nature built up the ice of thawless winter."

Etymology

Etymology tree English thaw Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English thawless From thaw + -less.

Inflected Forms

more thawless (comparative) most thawless (superlative)

Questions

What does thawless mean?: eternally frozen; not prone to thaw
Where does thawless come from?: Etymology tree English thaw Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English thawless From thaw + -less.

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