Sileとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 syle, from 古期英語 sȳl (“column, pillar, support”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūli, from Proto-Germanic *sūliz (“beam, post, column, pillar”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱsewl-, *ḱswel- (“log”), from *ḱsew-, *ḱes- (“to scratch, comb”).

Cognate with Dutch zuil (“pillar”), German Säule (“column, pillar”), Norwegian søyle (“pillar”), Icelandic súla (“column”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐍃 (sauls, “pillar”).

別の表記

• syle, cyle (Scotland)

名詞

sile (plural siles)(now chiefly dialectal)

1. A column; pillar.
2. A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.
3. The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.
4. A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.

語源 2

From 中期英語 silen, sylen, from Middle Low German silen ("to let off water, filter, strain"; > Low German silen, sielen), equivalent to sie (“to filter, strain”) +‎ -le. Cognate with German sielen (“let off water, filter”), Swedish sila (“to strain, filter, sift”), German Siel (“drain, sewer, sluice”).

動詞

sile (third-person singular simple present siles, present participle siling, simple past and past participle siled)(UK dialectal)

1. (transitive) To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
2. (intransitive)
   1. To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.
   2. To settle down; calm or compose oneself.
   3. To go; pass.
   4. To boil gently; simmer.
   5. To pour with rain.
      • 1888, John Hartley, Clock Almanack, page 14, quoted in the EDD:

        Th' rain had siled daan day and neet.

      • 1916, Country Life, page 407:

        and so when there come on a long rain it fairly "siled" down a steady beautiful rain, so different from that of a thunder-rain, the latter fairly teeming down just as the milk was teemed from the pails into the sile. Teeming and siling , though much akin, were two very different operations.

      • 1922, James Alpass Penny, More Folklore Round Horncastle, page 19:

        ... ya know what a wet un last year was, and how the rain siled down for days and days.

      • 2007 April 3, Kevin Rushby, Hunting Pirate Heaven: In Search of Lost Pirate Utopias, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:

        As the rain siled down outside, we discussed David Beckham, Ronaldo and Zidane – France's victory in the 1998 World Cup was fresh in their minds.

      • 2011 December 7, Paul Wordsworth, The Logic Bomb, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:

        ... unaware of the pouring freezing rain which siled down and saturated him and which ran down his lank hair and over his cold face. The gun dropped limply from his hand onto the soggy grass, where it hissed as steam rose from the hot muzzle. He stood outside in the dark […]

派生語

名詞

sile (plural siles)

1. A sieve.
2. A strainer or colander for liquids
3. That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth.

語源 3

From 中期英語 *sile, from Old Norse síl (“herring”), from Proto-Germanic *sīlą, *sīlō (“herring”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Icelandic síld (“herring”), Norwegian and Danish sild (“herring”), dialectal Swedish sil (“young fish, fry”). Compare sild.

名詞

sile (plural siles)

1. A young herring.

派生語

• sillock

アナグラム

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