Description:

The term 'hox' means ice and is also the word for freezing. This was in Davidson's original design of the language, but where many people in the New World Order, especially poorer people, actually rely on buying ice to fill an icebox (na hoxlyt) for cold storage, since electric freezers are very expensive and also not very effective in areas with intermitent electricty, it is also an appropriate conflation.

Noun:

As a noun, 'hox' means water ice (which can be clarified by saying 'eru hox'), or other kinds of ices, like 'azunys hox', frozen carbon dioxide or 'dry ice' (Calqued from English).

The derved form 'hoxlyt' means an icebox as in a cooling chamber literally cooled with ice. An electric freezer is called a 'hoxwala'.

Verb:

As a verb, 'hox' is an intransitive pali verb meaning to freeze. The imperfect is used to indicate being in the proces of freezing and the perfect to indicate being frozen. The skurun causative is used to add an ergative agent or device or external condition freezing something.

This verb can also undergo avalent shift to 'zres hox', to be icy and/or slippery with ice.

Modifier:

The modifier forms 'hoxys' and 'hoxkas' are used pretty much interchanegably to mean 'frozen' or 'freezing'. Hoxys can also have the sense of 'icy'.