sill
/sɪl/
- n.
- 基石，槛，窗台，岩床，海底山脊，梁
中文释义来自 ECDICT
sill1词源 1
词源链
- 英语English
sill
词源说明
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).
释义
名词noun
- 1(architecture, also "window sill") A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
- 2(construction) 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
sill4词源 4
词源说明
Short for silly.
释义
形容词adjective
- 1rare, slangSilly.