firn
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Noun — A form of old snow that has been through several cycles of melting and refreezing, leaving it made up of many small grains of ice; it holds far less water than slush from a snow-cone, and its hardness varies with recent and current weather.
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Etymology
Borrowed from German Firn, which goes back through Alemannic German firn ("last year's") and Old High German firni ("old") to Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *firnijaz, *fernaz ("foregoing, previous"), and ultimately Proto-Indo-European *per- ("forth, forward, across, through"). It is cognate with Old...
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