hill

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English hil (“hill”), from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“top, hill, rock”) (compare also Proto-Germanic *halluz (“stone, rock”)). Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Faroese hólur (“hill”), Icelandic and Old Norse hóll (“hill”), Norn hul (“hillock”), Norwegian hol (“low hillock”), Swedish kulle (“hill”), Catalan coll (“hill”), Italian colle (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), Lithuanian kalnas (“hill, mountain”), Albanian kallumë (“big pile, tall heap”), Russian холм (xolm, “hill”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm. === Pronunciation === enPR: hĭl, IPA(key): /hɪl/ (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): [hɪɫ] (l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): [hɪo̯], [hɪʊ̯] Rhymes: -ɪl Homophone: he'll (in some dialects) === Noun === hill (plural hills) An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain. A sloping road. (US) A heap of earth surrounding a plant. (US) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them. (baseball) The pitcher’s mound. The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record. Antonym: dale ==== Hyponyms ==== (elevation): hillock, toman (smaller hills) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== hill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Hill in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) === Verb === hill (third-person singular simple present hills, present participle hilling, simple past and past participle hilled) To form into a heap or mound. To heap or draw earth around plants. ==== Translations ==== == Yola == === Noun === hill alternative form of hele (“hill”) === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 39