different between hill vs laine

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)

1. 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.

2. A sloping road.

3. (US) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
4. (US) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.

5. (baseball) The pitcher’s mound.
6. 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)

1. To form into a heap or mound.
2. To heap or draw earth around plants.

Translations

Westrobothnian

Etymology

Cognate with Icelandic hilla, Swedish hylla.

Noun

hill f (definite singular hilla)

1. shelf

Synonyms

• fjahl

English

Noun

laine (plural laines)

1. (Sussex) an area of arable land at the foot of a hill

Anagrams

• A-line, Aline, Elain, Elian, Elina, Nelia, alien, aline, anile, elain, liane, linea

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *laineh.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ine

Noun

laine (genitive laine, partitive lainet)

1. wave

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• helilaine

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *laineh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?i?ne?/, [?l?i?ne?(?)]
• Rhymes: -?ine
• Syllabification: lai?ne

Noun

laine

1. wave

Declension

Derived terms

• lainehtia
• laineikas
• laineittaa
• lainekreppi
• lainelauta
• virilaine

See also

• valaa öljyä laineille

Anagrams

• Alien, Elina, alein, aleni, aneli, laein, liean

French

Etymology

From Middle French laine, from Old French lainne, lein, from Latin l?na, from Proto-Italic *wl?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?w??h?neh?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

laine f (plural laines)

1. wool

Derived terms

• bas de laine
• laine de fer
• laine de verre
• pure laine

Related terms

• laineux
• lainier

Further reading

• “laine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• Aline, enlia

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *laineh. Cognates include Finnish laine and Estonian laine.

Pronunciation

• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /?l?i?ne/
• Hyphenation: lai?ne

Noun

laine (genitive laineen, partitive lainetta)

1. wave

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) I?oran Keelen Grammatikka?^[1], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 7
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 244

Norman

Etymology

From Old French lainne, leine, from Latin l?na, from Proto-Italic *wl?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?w??h?neh?.

Noun

laine f (plural laines)

1. (Jersey) wool