syll

== Old English == === Alternative forms === sylle === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *sulī (“bar, sill”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /syll/, [syɫ] Rhymes: -yll === Noun === syll f a beam that serves as a foundation or support, basis, sill late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Deposition of St. Cuthbert, Bishop" (figurative) a base, support, foundation ==== Declension ==== Strong i-stem: ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: sylle, sülle, selle, sille English: sill Scots: sil, sill → Latin: silla == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *swellijō, whence also English sill. Doublet of svill: In Proto-Norse vi > y through u-mutation, giving an irregular paradigm sg. syll, pl. svillar (sic). Leveling in both directions then led to paradigm split. === Noun === syll f sill Synonym: bjalki ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “syll”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive == Swedish == === Etymology === From Old Swedish syl, from Middle Low German sul, sülle, sille. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sʏl/, [sʏlː] === Noun === syll c a railroad tie, railway sleeper Synonym: sliper ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “syll”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)