silt
Oznaczający (English)
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- Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
- Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
- A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
Synonyms
blackish mud
drift-wood
mud accumulation
etc and deposited
mud silting
mud filling
alluvial soil
inorganic silt
Częstotliwość
Wymawiane jako (IPA)
/sɪlt/
Etymologia (English)
In summary
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”).
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