Dill

== English == === Etymology === As a German surname, from Diele (“floorboard”). As an English surname, from the noun dill and also the adjective dull. As a Scottish/Scottish Gaelic surname, reduced from McDill, itself a variant of McDowell. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɪl === Proper noun === Dill A surname. === Further reading === Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dill”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 462. == East Central German == === Etymology === Compare German Delle. === Noun === Dill (Erzgebirgisch) dent, indentation === References === Hendrik Heidler (11 June 2020), Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎[1] (in German), 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 31 == German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /dɪl/ === Etymology 1 === With Central German consonantism from Middle High German tille, from Old High German tilli, from Proto-West Germanic *dili. ==== Alternative forms ==== Dille f (Austrian German), Till m (obsolete) ==== Noun ==== Dill m (strong, genitive Dilles or Dills, plural Dille) dill (herb of the species Anethum graveolens) ===== Declension ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Kashubian: dil → Latvian: dilles → Romansh: dil → Lower Sorbian: dyla ==== Further reading ==== “Dill” in Duden online “Dill”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) === Etymology 2 === ==== Proper noun ==== die Dill f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Dill) a river flowing through central Hesse; a tributary of the Lahn ===== Derived terms ===== Lahn-Dill-Kreis === Etymology 3 === ==== Proper noun ==== Dill n (proper noun, genitive Dills or (optionally with an article) Dill) a municipality of Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate === Etymology 4 === ==== Proper noun ==== Dill m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Dills or (with an article) Dill, feminine genitive Dill, plural Dills) a surname == Luxembourgish == === Etymology === From Middle High German dille, from Old High German dilla, from Proto-Germanic *þiljǭ. Cognate with German Diele, Dutch deel, English thill. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /dil/ Rhymes: -il === Noun === Dill m (plural Dill or Diller) plank, board bowling lane ==== Derived terms ==== dillen