THRESHOLD  , the See also:

• DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)

door-See also:

• SILL
• SILL (O.Eng. syl, Mid. E. sylle, selle; the word appears in Icel. syll, svill, Swed. syll, and Dan. syld, and in German, as Schwelle; Skeat refers to the Teutonic root swal-, swell, the word meaning the rise or swell formed by a beam at a threshold; the L
• SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND (1841-1887)

sill, the piece of See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone or See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood which is placed at the bottom of a door, See also:

• GATE

gate, or entrance to a See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house or other See also:

• BUILDING

building . The word is used in See also:

• PSYCHOLOGY
• PSYCHOLOGY (>Guxrl, the mind or soul, and X yos, theory)

psychology as the See also:

• EQUIVALENT

equivalent of Ger . Schwelle and of See also:

• LAT

Lat. limen, i.e. the lowest limit of sensation, the point at which the intensity of sensation becomes just noticeable . Etymologically threshold (O . Eng. herscold, M . Eng. hreswold) has usually been divided " thresh," i.e. thrash, See also:

• BEAT (a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages; it is connected with the similar Romanic words derived from the Late Lat. battere)

beat, and wold, wald, wood; the word meaning the pieces of wood beaten or trampled by the feet . The termination, as is shown by the Old See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, has probably no connexion with wald, but is merely a suffix, as in O . H . Ger. driscilfli, threshold . The first See also:

• PART

part is certainly " thrash," beat; some have supposed that in See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early times the entrance to a house was used as a threshing-See also:

• FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor .