different between keel vs jeel

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English kele, from Old Norse kj?lr, itself from Proto-Germanic *keluz, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gewlos. Distantly related to kile.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ki?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l

Noun

keel (plural keels)

1. (nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
2. (nautical) A rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
3. (aeronautics) In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.
4. (nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.
5. (zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
6. (botany) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.
7. A brewer's cooling vat.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

keel (third-person singular simple present keels, present participle keeling, simple past and past participle keeled)

1. (intransitive, followed by "over") to collapse, to fall

   He keeled over after having a stroke.

2. To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
3. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
4. (transitive, obsolete) to cool by stirring or skimming in order to keep from boiling over

   while greasy Joan doth keel the pot (Shakespeare)

Derived terms

• keel over

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from Scottish Gaelic cìl (“ruddle”).

Noun

keel

1. (Scotland) Red chalk; ruddle.

Verb

keel (third-person singular simple present keels, present participle keeling, simple past and past participle keeled)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To mark with ruddle.

Etymology 3

Verb

keel (third-person singular simple present keels, present participle keeling, simple past and past participle keeled)

1. Pronunciation spelling of kill.

Anagrams

• Kele, Leek, elke, leek, lekë

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch keel, from Middle Dutch k?le, from Old Dutch kela, from Proto-Germanic *kel?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???l/

Noun

keel (plural kele)

1. throat

Derived terms

• keelgat
• keelseer

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?l/, [ke??]
• Hyphenation: keel
• Rhymes: -e?l

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch k?le, from Old Dutch kela, from Proto-Germanic *kel?.

Noun

keel f (plural kelen, diminutive keeltje n)

1. throat

   Synonym: hals

Derived terms

• baard in de keel
• keelgat
• keelpijn

Descendants

• Afrikaans: keel

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

keel n (uncountable)

1. (heraldry) gules, the blazoning term for the color red

Anagrams

• leek, leke

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *keeli. Cognate with Finnish kieli.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ke?l/

Noun

keel (genitive keele, partitive keelt)

1. language
2. tongue
3. string of musical instrument

Declension

Derived terms

• emakeel
• kõnekeel
• keeleluu
• keeleteadus
• keelkond
• röövlikeel

Further reading

• keel in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat
• keel in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik

Etymology 2

Noun

keel

1. adessive singular of kee

Etymology 3

Noun

keel

1. adessive singular of kesi

Ingrian

Noun

keel (genitive keelen, partitive keeltä)

1. Soikkola spelling of keeli

References

• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachinkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: ??????? ?? ????????? ??????^[1], ?ISBN, page 33

English

Etymology 1

Noun

jeel (plural jeels)

1. Alternative form of jheel
   • 1820, Walter Hamilton, A Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Description of Hindostan and the Adjacent Countries, Volume 1, page 246,

     The pieces of stagnant water may be divided into jeels which contain water throughout the year, and chaongre which dry up in the cold season.

   • 1827, East India Company, Journey across the Arracan Mountains, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volume 23, page 16,

     On the banks of this jeel the party encamped, about two miles from the village.

   • 1827, The Burmese War: Operations on the Sihet Frontier, 1824, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, Volume 24, page 551,

     The reports of some hircarrahs having induced a belief that a short passage might be discovered across the jeels from the Gogra towards Tilyn, Lieut. Fisher, of the Quarter-Master General's department, was despatched to reconnoitre the outlets from that river, accompanied by Lieut. Craigie and five sipahees, in two dingees.

Etymology 2

Manx jeeyl, jeeill ("damage"), cognate to Irish díobháil.

Noun

jeel

1. (Isle of Man) Damage; harm.
   • 1889, Thomas Edward Brown, The Manx Witch: And Other Poems, page 79:

     And the gel, you know, as freckened as freckened,

     Because of coorse she navar reckoned

     But Misthriss Banks could do the jeel ¹

     She was braggin she could, and she'd take and kneel

     On her bended knees, and she'd cuss — the baste !

     […]

     ¹ Damage.

   • 1908, Cushag (Josephine Kermode), Eunys, Or the Dalby Maid, page 16:

     An' first an' last upon the flure, an' spinnin' at the wheel,

     But that strange silence on her still of what had done the jeel.

   • 1924, Sophia Morrison, Edmund Goodwin, A vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx dialect,

     page 73, entry "Govvag":

     The jeel (damage) the govags is doin to the nets is urrov all marcy.

     page 188, entry "Traa-dy-liooar":

     An' the wan (one) that's doin all the jeel (damage) is wickad Traa-dy-liooar (Time-enough). (Cushag.)

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “jeel”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume III (Hoop–O), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.