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ChillEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Variant of Child.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗chillEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English chele, chile, from Old English ċiele, ċele (“cold; coldness”), from Proto-West Germanic *kali, from Proto-Germanic *kaliz, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold”). Closely related with Dutch kil. Also akin to cool, cold, gel, and congeal, which see.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗chillEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English chele, chile, from Old English ċiele, ċele (“cold; coldness”), from Proto-West Germanic *kali, from Proto-Germanic *kaliz, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold”). Closely related with Dutch kil. Also akin to cool, cold, gel, and congeal, which see.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗chillEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English chillen, from Old English ċilian (“to be cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *kilēn (“to be cold”). Cognate with Middle Dutch killen (“to be cold”), Dutch killen (“to be cold, shiver”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗chillEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
From Middle English ichille, equivalent to ch- + will, from ich + will.
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