Noun: sile
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like sile
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English syle, from Old English sȳl (“column, pillar, support”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūli, from Proto-Germanic *sūliz (“beam, post, column, pillar”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱsewl-, *ḱswel- (“log”), from *ḱsew-, *ḱes- (“to scratch, comb”).
2. Cognate with Dutch zuil (“pillar”), German Säule (“column, pillar”), Norwegian søyle (“pillar”), Icelandic súla (“column”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐍃 (sauls, “pillar”). See: Middle English Nouns '
syle', Dutch Nouns '
zuil', German Nouns '
Säule', Icelandic Nouns '
súla', Gothic Nouns '
𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐍃'.
Verbs referencing "sile"
German Nouns
Säule, Danish Nouns
sule, Dutch Nouns
zuil, Danish Nouns
søjle, Gothic Nouns
𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐍃.