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English

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1: Sill
2: Lintel

Alternative forms

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  • (part of canal lock): cill

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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).

Noun

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sill (plural sills)

  2. (architecture, also "window sill") A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
    She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill.
  4. (construction) 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.
    Coordinate terms: ground plate, groundsill, sole, sole plate, mudsill
  5. (geology) A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
    • 1980, Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1119, U.S. Government Printing Office:
      Minor palingenetic magmas probably were generated at this time and intruded the mantling rocks in the form of small sills and apophyses […] .
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 55::
      The molten rock in the sills may have ignited vast reserves of shallowly buried natural gas, much like a match applied to a gas barbecue.
  6. A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
  7. (anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
    the nasal sill
  8. (military, historical) The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
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Etymology 2

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Compare sile.

Noun

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sill (plural sills)

  1. (UK) A young herring.

Etymology 3

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Compare thill.

Noun

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sill (plural sills)

  1. The shaft or thill of a carriage.

Etymology 4

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Short for silly.

Adjective

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sill (comparative more sill, superlative most sill)

  1. (rare, slang) Silly.

References

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  • Harris, Cyril M.. Illustrated dictionary of historic architecture. New York: Dover Publications, 1983, 1977. Groundsill →ISBN

Anagrams

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Albanian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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See sjell (“to bring”).

Verb

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sill

  1. second-person singular present imperative of sjell

Etymology 2

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See cili. Attested in Kuvendi i Arbënit (1706).[1]

Pronoun

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sill

  1. (Gheg) (archaic) alternative form of cili (“who, which”) (nominative plural sijtë)

References

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  1. ^ Çabej, E. (1987), “cili”, in Studime etimologjike në fushë të shqipes (in Albanian), volumes III: C–D, Tirana, pages 34-38

Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French sill, from English sill.

Noun

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sill n (uncountable)

  1. (geology) sill

Declension

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singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative sill sillul
genitive-dative sill sillului
vocative sillule

Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv
en sill

Etymology

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From Old Norse síld, from Proto-Germanic *sīlą.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sill c

  1. herring
    inlagd sill
    pickled herring
    sill och färskpotatis
    [pickled] herring and new potatoes [common Midsummer Eve food]
    Hallå där, köp blåbär
    Hallå där en gång till, köp en rutten sill
    Hallå där många gånger, köp dubbla långkalsonger
    Hello there, buy blueberries
    Hello there one more time, buy a rotten herring
    Hello there many times, buy double long johns
    [a nursery rhyme with several variations for the last line]
    April april, din dumma sill, jag kan lura dig vart jag vill!
    April April, you stupid herring, I can trick you [to] wherever I want! [or "lure you wherever I want," but "lura" has a less sinister tone of trick/fool in Swedish] [a rhyme used like "April Fools!"]

Usage notes

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  • Herring from the Atlantic on Sweden's west coast is called sill. The subspecies fished from the Baltic Sea on Sweden's east coast is called strömming.

Declension

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Declension of sill
nominative genitive
singular indefinite sill sills
definite sillen sillens
plural indefinite sillar sillars
definite sillarna sillarnas

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Welsh

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Etymology

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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sill f (plural sillau or silloedd, not mutable)

  1. alternative form of sillaf (“syllable”)

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Further reading

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “sill”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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