silt

Meaning

1. Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
2. Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
3. A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

ooze

blackish mud

drift-wood

mud accumulation

rock flour

etc and deposited

mud silting

mud filling

alluvial soil

inorganic silt

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɪlt/

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”).