sill

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Concepten

dorpel

drempel

vensterbank

Synoniemen

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

Vertalingen

seuil

umbral

davanzale

llindar

soglia

limen

Schwelle

περβάζι

limiar

ampit

soleira

rebord

κατώφλι

parapeito

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/sɪl/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: sille

Overgenomen van Oudengels: syll

Verwant aan Schots: sil

Verwant aan Nederlands: zulle

Verwant aan Nedersaksisch: Sull

Verwant aan Duits: Süll

Verwant aan Deens: syld

Verwant aan Zweeds: syll

Verwant aan Noors: syll

Verwant aan IJslands: syll

Verwant aan Latijn: silva

Verwant aan Oudgrieks: 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).