different between saile vs sile

English

Noun

saile (plural sailes)

1. Obsolete spelling of sail

Verb

saile

1. Obsolete spelling of sail

Anagrams

• Alesi, ELISA, Elias, aisle, eLISA, slaie

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sal??/

Noun

saile

1. genitive singular of sail

Mutation

Middle English

Verb

saile

1. Alternative form of assailen

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English syle, from Old English s?l (“column, pillar, support”), from Proto-Germanic *s?liz (“beam, post, column, pillar”), from Proto-Indo-European *?sewl-, *?swel- (“log”), from *?sew-, *?es- (“to scratch, comb”).

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

Alternative forms

• syle, cyle (Scotland)

Noun

sile (plural siles)

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

Etymology 2

From Middle English 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”).

Verb

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

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
2. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.
3. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To settle down; calm or compose oneself.
4. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To go; pass.
5. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To boil gently; simmer.
6. (intransitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England) To pour with rain.

Noun

sile (plural siles)

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

Etymology 3

From Middle English *sile, from Old Norse síl (“herring”), from Proto-Germanic *s?l?, *s?l? (“herring”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Icelandic síld (“herring”), Norwegian and Danish sild (“herring”), dialectal Swedish sil (“young fish, fry”). Compare sild.

Noun

sile (plural siles)

1. A young herring.

Derived terms

• sillock

Anagrams

• %iles, Elis, Iles, Isle, Leis, Lise, iles, isle, leis, lies, slie

Estonian

Adjective

sile (genitive sileda, partitive siledat)

1. smooth

Declension

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sile?/, [?s?ile?(?)]
• Rhymes: -ile
• Syllabification: si?le

Noun

sile

1. (dialectal, Southwestern Finland) meat jelly

Declension

Synonyms

• aladobi

Anagrams

• Elsi

French

Verb

sile

1. first-person singular present indicative of siler
2. third-person singular present indicative of siler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of siler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of siler
5. second-person singular imperative of siler

Anagrams

• élis, îles, isle, lies, liés, Lise, lise

Latin

Verb

sil?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sile?

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i.l?/

Noun

sile f

1. dative/locative singular of si?a

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sile (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inflection of sila:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

sile (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of siliti