sill – English noun declension

English noun forms of sill

Noun: sill
Singularsill
Pluralsills

Sample Sentences

  • She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill.
  • Minor palingenetic magmas probably were generated at this time and intruded the mantling rocks in the form of small sills and apophyses […]. [1980, Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1119, U.S. Government Printing Office:]
  • The molten rock in the sills may have ignited vast reserves of shallowly buried natural gas, much like a match applied to a gas barbecue. [2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 55::]
  • the nasal sill

Etymology

1. From Middle English sille, selle, sülle, from Old English syll, syl (“sill, threshold, foundation, base, basis”), from Proto-Germanic *sulī (“bar, sill”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).
2. Cognate with Scots sil, sill (“balk, beam, floor, sill”), Dutch zulle (“sill”), Low German Sull, Sülle (“threshold, ramp, sill”), German Süll, Sülle (“threshold, sill”), Danish syld (“base of a framework building”), Swedish syll (“joist, cross-tie”), Norwegian syll, Icelandic syll, sylla (“sill”). Related also to German Schwelle ( > Danish svelle), Old Norse svill, Latin silva (“wood, forest”), Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē). See: Middle English Nouns 'sille', Old English Nouns 'syll', Dutch Nouns 'zulle', Swedish Nouns 'syll', Icelandic Nouns 'syll', Latin Nouns 'silva', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ὕλη'.

Verbs referencing "sill"

Romanian Nouns sill, Old Norse Nouns syll, Ancient Greek Nouns ὕλη, Dutch Nouns zulle, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns svill.