silt – English noun declension

English noun forms of silt

Noun: silt
Singularsilt
Pluralsilts

Sample Sentences

  • A large tube is then followed over several silt banks to surface after a total dive of 200 m in a large passage containing an active streamway – The San Agustin Way. 5 m before the passage surfaces another line junction is passed, ... [2006, Duncan Price, Welsh Sump Index, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 41:]
  • Above the lower headcut, phreatophytic mesquite and little leaf sumac hug the banks, drawing pendulate water from the silts remaining from former marsh deposits and sending long taproots into channel stores. [2007, Susan L. Woodward, “Modern Vegetation of the Murray Springs Area and the Upper San Pedro Valley”, in Caleb Vance Haynes, Bruce B. Huckell, editor, Murray Springs, page 58:]
  • The gravels, initially deposited by surf-zone processes during the Pleistocene low stands in this area were drowned by quartzose sands, and then the prodeltaic silts and clays deposited by the seaward prograding-feather edge of the Holocene Orange Delta were subsequently integrated into the delta-front by bioturbation. [2015 December 1, “Infaunal Benthic Communities from the Inner Shelf off Southwestern Africa Are Characterised by Generalist Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:]

Etymology

1. PIE word
2. *sḗh₂l
3. 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 Sülze (“meat in aspic”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“salty water; brine”). Related to Old English sealt (“salt”). See: Middle English Nouns 'silte', German Nouns 'Sülze', Old English Nouns 'sealt'.

Verbs referencing "silt"

Danish Nouns silt, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns silt, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns silt, Finnish Nouns siltti.