silim

See also: sílim, sílím, and šílím

Irish

Verb

silim

1. first-person singular present indicative/imperative of sil

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
silim	shilim after an, tsilim	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

silim (Cyrillic spelling силим)

1. first-person singular present of siliti

Sumerian

Romanization

silim

1. Romanization of 𒁲 (silim)

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *siləm (“fade from sight”). Compare Maguindanao silam and Malay silam.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsilim/ [ˈsiː.lɪm]
• Rhymes: -ilim
• Syllabification: si‧lim

Noun

silim (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜎᜒᜋ᜔)

1. dusk

   Synonym: dapithapon

2. breaking water; amniorrhexis in childbirth (leakage of amniotic fluid before giving birth)

Derived terms

• pagsisilim
• siliman
• takipsilim

 

Further reading

• “silim”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*silem”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI