sully

Mane (Îngilîzî)

Verb

1. (transitive) To soil or stain; to dirty.
2. (transitive) To corrupt or damage.
3. (ergative, intransitive) To become soiled or tarnished.

Noun

A blemish.

Hevwate

soil

defile

besmirch

stain

smear

smirch

tarnish

blemish

dirty

denigrate

defame

taint

corrupt

cloud

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begrime

dishonor

blacken

blot

asperse

attaint

besmear

calumniate

disgrace

foul

maculate

moil

slander

slur

speck

spoil

spot

melanize

black

disrupt

favour

flatter

nigrify

grime

imbrue

impair

be stained

mar

shame

multiply

obscure

pollute

profane

ruin

make turbid

be soiled

Werger

besudeln

salir

sporcare

insozzare

macchiare

insudiciare

macular

manchar

souiller

infangare

verschmutzen

beschmutzen

bezoedelen

deturpare

infamare

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/ˈsʌli/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: sulen

Ji Old English mîras hatiye girtin: sylian

Hevwate bi Old French: souillier

Hevwate bi fransî: souiller

Hevwate bi danmarkî: søle

Hevwate bi Vlaams: seulewen

Hevwate bi Middle Dutch: soluwen

Hevwate bi almanî: sühlen

Hevwate bi Old Saxon: sulian

Hevwate bi swêdî: söla

Hevwate bi Middle English: sulpen

Hevwate bi Old English: solian

In summary

From Middle English sulen, sulien (“to become dirty; to defile, pollute, taint”), from Old English sylian (“to soil, pollute; to sully”), from Proto-West Germanic *sulwōn, *sulwijan (“to make dirty; to sully”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid, muck”), perhaps conflated partially with Old French souillier (“to soil”) (modern French souiller) from the same Germanic source. The word is cognate with Danish søle (“to sully”), West Flemish seulewen (“to sully”) (Middle Dutch soluwen (“to sully”)), German sühlen (“to sully”), Old Saxon sulian (“to sully”), Swedish söla (“to sully”). Also compare Middle English sulpen (“to defile, pollute”), Old English solian (“to soil, become defiled, make or become foul”), and see more at soil.