Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour. · To spread out or fall out, as above. · To overflow out of a designated area. · To drop something that was intended to be caught.
Any thing that has been spilled; the resulting mess. · A fall or stumble. · Synonym of taper, a thin stick, long wick, etc. used to transfer flame. · A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask'; a spile.
From Middle English spillen, from Old English spillan, spildan (“to kill, destroy, waste”), from Proto-West Germanic *spilþijan, from Proto-Germanic *spilþijaną (“to spoil, kill, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to sunder, split, rend, tear”). Cognate with Dutch spillen (“to use needlessly, waste”), French gaspiller ("to waste, squander" < Germanic), Bavarian spillen (“to split, cleave, splinter”), Danish spilde (“to spill, waste”), Swedish spilla (“to spill, waste”), Icelandic spilla (“to contaminate, spoil”). See also spool.
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- Derivation mentionspillenenm
- Derivation mentionspillanang
- Derivation mention*spilþijangmw-pro
- Derivation mention*spilþijanągem-pro
- Derivation mention*(s)pel-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionspillennl
- Cognate mentiongaspillerfr
- Cognate mentionspillenbar
- Cognate mentionspildeda
- Cognate mentionspillasv
- Cognate mentionspillais
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