silt

See also: šilt

English

Etymology

From Middle English silte, cilte, cylte, perhaps from Middle English silen ("to filter; strain"; equivalent to sile +‎ -t), or cognate with Norwegian and Danish sylt (“salt marsh”), Middle Low German sulte (“salt-marsh”), German Sulze, Sülze (“brine”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“salty water; brine”). Related to Old English sealt (“salt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪlt/
• Rhymes: -ɪlt

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Noun

silt (countable and uncountable, plural silts)

1. (uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

   Synonym: slitch

2. (uncountable, by extension) Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
3. (countable, geology) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

Translations

fine earth deposited by water

• Afrikaans: slik (af)
• Armenian: տիղմ (hy) (tiłm)
• Catalan: llim (ca) m, llaquim m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泥沙 (zh) (níshā)

• Dutch: silt
• Finnish: liete (fi), lieju (fi)
• French: vase (fr), limon (fr)
• Georgian: შლამი (šlami)
• German: Schlamm (de) m, Schlick (de) m, Schluff (de) m
• Hebrew: טִיט‎ (he) m (tit), טִין‎ (he) m (tin)
• Hungarian: üledék (hu), iszap (hu), kőzetliszt, aleurit
• Ido: slamo (io)
• Irish: siolta m
• Italian: limo (it) m
• Japanese: シルト (shiruto), 沈泥 (ちんでい, chindei)
• Korean: 실트 (silteu)

• Maltese: ħama m
• Maori: kenepuru, kotao, parakiwai, kotae, parahua, kotae
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: silt m

  Nynorsk: silt m

• Polish: muł (pl) m, ił (pl) m
• Portuguese: sedimento (pt) m, silte (pt) m
• Russian: ил (ru) m (il)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: муљ m

  Roman: mulj (sh) m

• Slovene: mulj (sl) m
• Spanish: limo (es) m, sedimentos fluviales m pl, fango (es) m
• Tagalog: labon
• Ukrainian: мул m (mul)
• Welsh: llaid m, silt m, llifwaddod m

See also

• alluvium
• varve

Verb

silt (third-person singular simple present silts, present participle silting, simple past and past participle silted)

1. (transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
2. (intransitive) To become clogged with silt.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To flow through crevices; to percolate.

Derived terms

• silt up
• silting
• desilt and desilting

Translations

to clog or fill with silt

• French: envaser (fr)

• Ido: slamizar (io)

to become clogged with silt

• French: envaser (fr)

• Russian: заполня́ться и́лом (zapolnjátʹsja ílom)

to flow through crevices; to percolate

• Russian: проса́чиваться (ru) (prosáčivatʹsja)

Anagrams

• &lits, List, list, lits, slit, tils

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Dutch

Noun

silt n (plural silten)

1. (geology) silt

Derived terms

• siltsteen

Anagrams

• list, stil

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English silt

Noun

silt (definite singular silten)

1. silt

Derived terms

• siltstein

References

• “silt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English silt

Noun

silt (definite singular silten)

1. silt

Derived terms

• siltstein

References

• “silt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.