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hill
English
Etymology
From Middle English hill, from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“stone, rock”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl?Hnís (“top, hill, rock”). Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Old Norse hóll (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), Lithuanian kalnas, Albanian kallumë (“big pile, tall heap”), Russian ???? (xolm, “hill”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?l, IPA(key): /h?l/, [h??]
- Rhymes: -?l
- Homophone: heel (in some dialects)
Noun
hill (plural hills)
- An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
- So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- 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
Westrobothnian
Etymology
Cognate with Icelandic hilla, Swedish hylla.
Noun
hill f (definite singular hilla)
- shelf
Synonyms
- fjahl
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kopje
English
Alternative forms
- koppie
Etymology
From (South African) Dutch kopje, diminutive of kop (“head”).
Noun
kopje (plural kopjes)
- (South Africa) A small hill or mound (especially on the African veld).
- 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 8:
- Martha looked over a mile or so of bush to a strip of pink ploughed land; […] and then, ridge after ridge, fold after fold, the bush stretched to a line of blue kopjes.
- 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 72:
- On the koppie behind the village, the unsightly red-and-white skeleton of an FM tower.
- 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 8:
References
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)
Afrikaans
Noun
kopje (plural kopjes)
- (archaic) Alternative form of koppie
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?p.j?/
Noun
kopje n (plural kopjes)
- Diminutive of kop
Lower Sorbian
Alternative forms
- ko?e (obsolete)
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *kop?je. Cognate with Upper Sorbian kopjo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?p??/, [?k?p??]
Noun
kopje n (diminutive kopjecko)
- spear, javelin, lance, pike
Inflection
Further reading
- ko?e in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
- kopje in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *kop?je.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kò?pj?/
Noun
k??pje n
- javelin
Inflection
Further reading
- “kopje”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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