syll
Old English
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editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *sulī (“bar, sill”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsyll f
- a beam that serves as a foundation or support, basis, sill
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Deposition of St. Cuthbert, Bishop"
- Þā wolde se hālga sum hūs timbrian to his nīedbrȳċum, mid his ġebrōðra fultume. Þā bæd hē hīe ānre sylle þæt hē meahte þæt hūs on þā sǣhealfe mid þǣre underleċġan. Þā ġebrōðra him behēton þæt hīe woldon þæt trēow þonne hīe eft cōmon him ġebringan. Þā cōmon hīe swā swā hīe cwǣdon, and wurdon swā þēah þæs trēowes unġemyndiġe, ac God his wæs ġemyndiġ, and him þā sylle self āsende mid þām sǣlīcum flōde.
- Then the saint decided to build a house for himself, with his brothers' help. So he asked them for a sill to support the house on the side facing the sea. The brothers went out and promised him that they would bring him the tree when they came back. Then they did come back, just like they said they would, but they had forgotten about the tree. But God remembered, and sent him a sill himself with a flood from the sea.
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Deposition of St. Cuthbert, Bishop"
- (figurative) a base, support, foundation
- Ðonne hī ne bēoþ mid nānre sylle underscotene ðæs godcundlīcan mægenes
- Then they are with no foundation supportive of the divine power
Declension
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Descendants
editOld Norse
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *sulī, whence also English sill.
Noun
editsyll f
Declension
edit Declension of syll (strong consonant stem)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “syll”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Swedish
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editNoun
editsyll c
- a railroad sleeper
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