keel

See also: Keel

English

1. Keel (light peach) 2. Skeg (dark purple) 3. Deadwood (olive drab) 4. Stern post (forest green) 5. Filling chock (bright yellow) 6. Filling transoms (pale yellow-green) 7. Wing transom (turquoise) 8. Helm port (orange) 9. Counter timbers (pale violet) 10. Margin (indigo) 11. Horn timber (green) 12. Stern timbers (apricot) 13. Side-counter timbers (pale yellow) 14. Quarter-timbers (red) 15. Fashion timber (fuchsia) 16. Cant frames (blue) 17. Square body frames (uncolored)

Etymology 1

From Middle English kele, from Old Norse kjǫlr, itself from Proto-Germanic *keluz, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gewlos. Distantly related to kile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiːl/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

keel (plural keels)

1. (nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
2. (nautical) A rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
3. (aeronautics) In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.
4. (nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.
5. (zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
6. (botany) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.
   • 1985, Charles L. Scott, The Genus Haworthia (Liliaceae): A Taxonomic Revision (page 80)

     Vegetatively it is the nearest to H. translucens with its oblong-lanceolate leaves, with the margins and keel beset with pellucid teeth, but it differs and is characterised by the greyish-black quadrantly positioned globose flowers; […]

7. A brewer's cooling vat.

Derived terms

Terms derived from keel (noun)

• even keel
• keelful
• keelhaul

• keel over
• off keel

• on keel

Translations

beam along the underside of a ship’s hull

• Albanian: kallumë (sq) f
• Bulgarian: кил m (kil)
• Catalan: quilla (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 龍骨／龙骨 (zh) (lónggǔ), 龙骨 (zh) (lónggǔ)

• Czech: kýl m
• Danish: køl (da) c
• Dutch: kiel (nl) f
• Finnish: köli (fi)
• French: quille (fr) f
• Galician: quilla (gl) f
• Georgian: კილი (ḳili), გემის ხერხემალი (gemis xerxemali)
• German: Kiel (de) m
• Hebrew: שדרית (he) f (shidrít), שִׁדְרָה (he) f (shidrah)
• Italian: carena (it) f, chiglia (it) f
• Japanese: 竜骨 (りゅうこつ, ryūkotsu)
• Korean: 용골 (yonggol)
• Latin: carīna
• Low German:

  German Low German: kyl m

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• Maori: takere
• Norman: tchelle f
• Occitan: quilha (oc)
• Old English: cēol
• Old Saxon: kiol
• Polish: stępka (pl) f, kil (pl) m
• Portuguese: quilha (pt)
• Russian: киль (ru) m (kilʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кобилица f

  Roman: kobilica (sh) f

• Slovene: gredelj
• Spanish: quilla (es) f
• Swedish: köl (sv) c
• Thai: กระดูกงู (th) (grà-dùuk-nguu)
• Turkish: omurga (tr), gemi omurgası
• Volapük: kuil, kuil nafa, nafakuil
• Welsh: cêl (cy) m

rigid flat piece of material giving a ship greater control and stability

• Bulgarian: кил m (kil)
• Catalan: quilla (ca) f
• Dutch: kiel (nl) f
• Estonian: kiil (et)
• Finnish: köli (fi)
• German: Kiel (de) m, Schwert (de) n
• Hebrew: שדרן (he) f (shidran)
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• Italian: deriva (it) f
• Norwegian: kjøl
• Russian: киль (ru) m (kilʹ)
• Spanish: quilla (es) f
• Swedish: köl (sv)
• Turkish: salma (tr)

a type of flat-bottomed boat

• Bulgarian: шлеп (bg) m (šlep)
• Japanese: キール (kīru), 艀 (ja) (はしけ, hashike)
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Verb

keel (third-person singular simple present keels, present participle keeling, simple past and past participle keeled)

1. (intransitive, followed by "over") to collapse, to fall

   He keeled over after having a stroke.

2. To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
3. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

Derived terms

• keel over

Translations

collapse, fall

• Bulgarian: преобръщам се (preobrǎštam se)
• Greek: καταρρέω (el) (katarréo), σωριάζομαι (el) (soriázomai)
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Etymology 2

From Middle English kelen, from Old English cēlan (“to cool, to make or become cool”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlijan, from Proto-Germanic *kōlijaną (“to cool”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian käile, köile (“to cool”), Dutch koelen (“to cool”), German Low German köhlen (“to cool”), German kühlen (“to cool”), Danish køle (“to cool”), Icelandic kæla (“to cool”).

Verb

keel (third-person singular simple present keels, present participle keeling, simple past and past participle keeled)

1. (transitive, obsolete) to cool; make cool; to cool by stirring or skimming in order to keep from boiling over

   while greasy Joan doth keel the pot (Shakespeare)

2. (transitive, obsolete) to moderate the ardour or intensity of; assuage; to appease, pacify, or lessen
3. (intransitive, obsolete) to become cool; cool down

Derived terms

• keeler

Noun

keel (plural keels)

1. (brewing) A broad, flat vessel used for cooling liquids; a keelfat.

Etymology 3

Probably from Scottish Gaelic cìl (“ruddle”).

Noun

keel

1. (Scotland) Red chalk; ruddle.

Verb

keel (third-person singular simple present keels, present participle keeling, simple past and past participle keeled)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To mark with ruddle.

Etymology 4

Compare Scots kele, keil, keill (“to put to death, kill”).

Verb

keel (third-person singular simple present keels, present participle keeling, simple past and past participle keeled)

1. Pronunciation spelling of kill.

Anagrams

• Kele, Leek, elke, leek, lekë

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch keel, from Middle Dutch kēle, from Old Dutch kela, from Proto-Germanic *kelǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɪə̯l/

• Audio:

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Noun

keel (plural kele)

1. throat

Derived terms

• keelgat
• keelseer

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keːl/, [keːɫ]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: keel
• Rhymes: -eːl

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch kēle, from Old Dutch kela, from Proto-West Germanic *kelā, from Proto-Germanic *kelǭ.

Noun

keel f (plural kelen, diminutive keeltje n)

1. throat

   Synonym: hals

Derived terms

• baard in de keel
• keelgat
• keelpijn

Descendants

• Afrikaans: keel
• Negerhollands: keel

Etymology 2

From French gueule (“red throat of wild animals”), from Old French goles, plural of gole (“throat”), from Latin gula. Distantly related to Etymology 1 above.

Noun

keel n (uncountable)

1. (heraldry) gules, the blazoning term for the color red

Anagrams

• leek, leke

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Estonian

Etymology 1

From , from Proto-Uralic *käle. Cognate with Finnish kieli.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeːl/, [ˈkeːl]

Noun

keel (genitive keele, partitive keelt)

1. language
2. tongue
3. string of musical instrument

Declension

Declension of keel (ÕS type 13/suur, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		keel	keeled
accusative	nom.
	gen.	keele
genitive			keelte
partitive		keelt	keeli
illative		keelde keelesse	keeltesse keelisse
inessive		keeles	keeltes keelis
elative		keelest	keeltest keelist
allative		keelele	keeltele keelile
adessive		keelel	keeltel keelil
ablative		keelelt	keeltelt keelilt
translative		keeleks	keelteks keeliks
terminative		keeleni	keelteni
essive		keelena	keeltena
abessive		keeleta	keelteta
comitative		keelega	keeltega

Derived terms

• emakeel
• keeleluu
• keeleteadus
• keeleõpe
• keelkond
• kõnekeel
• röövlikeel

 

Further reading

• “keel”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “keel”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014

Etymology 2

Noun

keel

1. adessive singular of kee

Etymology 3

Noun

keel

1. adessive singular of kesi

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Ingrian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeːl/
• Hyphenation: keel

Noun

keel

1. Alternative form of keeli

Declension

Declension of keel (type 5/keeli, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	keel	keelet
genitive	keelen	keeliin, keelilöin
partitive	keeltä, keelt	keeliä, keelilöjä
illative	keelee	keelii, keelilöihe
inessive	keelees	keeliis, keelilöis
elative	keelest	keelist, keelilöist
allative	keelelle	keelille, keelilöille
adessive	keeleel	keeliil, keelilöil
ablative	keelelt	keelilt, keelilöilt
translative	keeleks	keeliks, keelilöiks
essive	keelennä, keeleen	keelinnä, keelilöinnä, keeliin, keelilöin
exessive1)	keelent	keelint, keelilöint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 162
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[1], →ISBN, page 33

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Tedim Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *keel, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *keel.

Noun

keel

1. goat

References

• Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip