Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window. · A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate. · A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata. · A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
From Middle English sille, selle, sülle, from Old English syll, syl (“sill, threshold, foundation, base, basis”), from Proto-Germanic *sulī (“bar, sill”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). Cognate with Scots sil, sill (“balk, beam, floor, sill”), Dutch zulle (“sill”), Low German Sull, Sülle (“threshold, ramp, sill”), German Süll, Sülle (“threshold, sill”), Danish syld (“base of a framework building”), Swedish syll (“joist, cross-tie”), Norwegian syll, Icelandic syll, sylla (“sill”). Related also to German Schwelle ( > Danish svelle), Old Norse svill, Latin silva (“wood, forest”), Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē).
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- Inherited-form mentionsilleenm
- Inherited-form mentionsyllang
- Inherited-form mention*sulīgem-pro · bar, sill
- Derivation mention*sel-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionsilsco
- Cognate mentionzullenl
- Cognate mentionSullnds
- Cognate mentionSüllde
- Cognate mentionsyldda
- Cognate mentionsyllsv
- Cognate mentionsyllno
- Cognate mentionsyllis
- Cognate mentionsilvala
- Cognate mentionὕληgrc
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