sill

Etymology 1
From, , , from , , from , from ,.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,. Related also to German ( > Danish ), Old Norse, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

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.
 * 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)  The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
 * 1) A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
 * 2)  A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
 * 3)  The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
 * 1)  The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
 * 1)  The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.

Usage notes

 * Usually spelled cill when used in the context of canal or river engineering.

Related terms

 * sense #13 (construction)
 * sense #13 (construction)

Translations

 * Bashkir: тәҙрә төбө
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: parapet
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, ,
 * German:, , , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: tairseach
 * Italian:
 * Latvian: palodze
 * Lithuanian: palangė
 * Macedonian: пе́рваз, симс
 * Maori: pehipehi
 * Marathi: तळसरी
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:, podokiennik
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sòla
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, Fachwerkschwelle, Fussschwelle, Fußschwelle
 * Greek:
 * Italian: soletta
 * Maori: paepae
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: lintel
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: kerrosjuoni
 * German: Lagergang, Sill
 * Greek: στρωματοειδής φλέβα
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Latin: sillus
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: pohjakynnys,
 * German:, Bodenstufe


 * Italian:
 * Turkish:

Etymology 2
Compare.

Noun

 * 1)  A young herring.

Etymology 3
Compare.

Noun

 * 1) The shaft or thill of a carriage.

Etymology 4
Short for silly.

Adjective

 * 1)  Silly.

Etymology
, from.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) herring

Usage notes

 * Herring from the Atlantic on Sweden's west coast is called sill. The subspecies fished from the Baltic Sea on Sweden's east coast is called.