sill

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
2. A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
3. A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
4. A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
5. A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
6. (historical) The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.

Adj

Silly.

Conceptos

umbral

antepecho

repisa de ventana

alféizar

parapeto

emparrillado

Sinónimos

threshold

doorstep

windowsill

ledge

doorway

parapet

bottom girder

window-sill

breast wall

bedstone

bottom of the frame

ground sill

ledge rock

rock bed

rock floor

beam

rock sheet

collar

floor

groundsel

water-table

window sill

Traducciones

seuil

soglia

davanzale

drempel

llindar

dorpel

limen

Schwelle

περβάζι

limiar

ampit

rebord

κατώφλι

vensterbank

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/sɪl/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: sille

Heredado de inglés antiguo: syll

Cognado con escocés: sil

Cognado con neerlandés: zulle

Cognado con bajo alemán: Sull

Cognado con alemán: Süll

Cognado con danés: syld

Cognado con sueco: syll

Cognado con noruego: syll

Cognado con islandés: syll

Cognado con latín: silva

Cognado con griego antiguo: ὕλη

In summary

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”).
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).