sile

Significado (English)

Noun

1. A column; pillar.
2. A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.
3. The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.
4. A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.

Verb

1. To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
2. To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.
3. To settle down; calm or compose oneself.
4. To go; pass.
5. To boil gently; simmer.
6. To pour with rain.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/saɪl/

Etimología (English)

Inherited from inglés medio: syle

Inherited from inglés antiguo: sȳl

Cognate with neerlandés: zuil

Cognate with alemán: Säule

Cognate with noruego: søyle

Cognate with islandés: súla

Cognate with gótico: 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐍃

Inherited from inglés medio: silen

Cognate with bajo alemán: silen

Cognate with alemán: sielen

Cognate with sueco: sila

Cognate with alemán: Siel

Inherited from inglés medio: *sile

Cognate with islandés: síld

Cognate with noruego: -

Cognate with danés: sild

Cognate with sueco: sil

In summary

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”).
Cognate with Dutch zuil (“pillar”), German Säule (“column, pillar”), Norwegian søyle (“pillar”), Icelandic súla (“column”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐍃 (sauls, “pillar”).