sillable

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Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

First known attestation circa 1160,^[1] borrowed from Latin syllaba.

Noun[edit]

sillable oblique singular, f (oblique plural sillables, nominative singular sillable, nominative plural sillables)

syllable

Descendants[edit]

→ Middle English: sillable, syllable
- English: syllable
French: syllabe

References[edit]

^ Etymology and history of “syllabe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (sillable, supplement)
silable on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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