keel

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English[edit]

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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[edit]

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[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kiːl/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːl

Noun[edit]

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.
  7. A brewer's cooling vat.
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Terms derived from keel (noun)
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Verb[edit]

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.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) to cool by stirring or skimming in order to keep from boiling over
    while greasy Joan doth keel the pot (Shakespeare)
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Etymology 2[edit]

Probably from Scottish Gaelic cìl (“ruddle”).

Noun[edit]

keel

  1. (Scotland) Red chalk; ruddle.

Verb[edit]

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

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

Etymology 3[edit]

Verb[edit]

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

  1. Pronunciation spelling of kill.

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Afrikaans[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

keel (plural kele)

  1. throat

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Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

keel f (plural kelen, diminutive keeltje n)

  1. throat
    Synonym: hals
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Descendants[edit]
  • Afrikaans: keel
  • Negerhollands: keel

Etymology 2[edit]

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[edit]

keel n (uncountable)

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

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Estonian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Finnic *keeli. Cognate with Finnish kieli.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

keel (genitive keele, partitive keelt)

  1. language
  2. tongue
  3. string of musical instrument
Declension[edit]
Inflection of keel (ÕS type 13/suur, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative keel keeled
accusative keele keeled
genitive keele 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
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Further reading[edit]

  • keel in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat
  • keel in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

keel

  1. adessive singular of kee

Etymology 3[edit]

Noun[edit]

keel

  1. adessive singular of kesi

Ingrian[edit]

Noun[edit]

keel (genitive keelen, partitive keeltä)

  1. Soikkola spelling of keeli

References[edit]

  • 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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