SILL (O.Eng. syl,

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• MID

Mid. E. sylle, selle; the word appears in Icel. syll, svill, Swed. syll, and

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• DAN

Dan. syld, and in

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• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German, as Schwelle;

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• SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835– )

Skeat refers to the

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• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic

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• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root swal-, swell, the word meaning the rise or swell formed by a

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• BEAM
• BEAM (from the O. Eng. beam, cf. Ger. Baum, a tree, to which sense may be referred the use of " beam " as meaning the rood or crucifix, and the survival in certain names of trees, as horn-beam)

beam at a

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• THRESHOLD

threshold; the L  at. solea, from which comes Fr. seuil, gives Eng . " sole," also sometimes used for " sill "), the horizontal base of a door or window-frame . A technical distinction is made between the inner or wooden base of the window-frame and the stone base on which it rests—the latter being called the sill of the window, and the former that of its frame . This term is not restricted to the bases of apertures; the lower horizontal part of a framed partition is called its sill .