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syll

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
syll, e; sylle, an; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§375;
a beam that serves as a foundation or
support, a sill, a basis, support
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  • Grundstánas cementum, syll basis, fót*-*stán

    fultura,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 61, 47-49.

  • Syl basis, post

    postis,

      86, 28, 29: ii. 10, 74: 101, 54.

  • Syl

    taber, i. 289, 48. Copsus syl, securis [æx?], ii. 133, 9. Cobsus syl, ætx [æcx [securis ]

    ?], 22, 48.

  • Getimbrung aedificium, post basis, sylle postis vel

    fulcimentum,

    i.
      47, 19-21.

  • Ðá wolde hé hús timbrian mid his gebróðra fultume. Ðá bæd hé hí ánre sylle, ðæt hé mihte ðæt hús on ða sǽhealfe mid ðære underlecgan. Ða gebróðra him behéton, ðæt hí woldon ðæt treów him gebringan. Ðá cómon hí and wurdon ðæs treówes ungemyndige; ac God him ða sylle ásende mid ðam sǽlícum flóde,

      Homl. Th. ii. 144, 31-146, 4.

  • Ðǽr fram sylle (

    from the plank to which it was fixed

    ) ábeág medubenc monig,
      Beo. Th. 1555; B. 775.
  • Ǽrest man ásmeáþ ðæs húses stede, and eác man ðæt timber beheáwþ, and ða syllan man fægere gefégþ, and ða beámas gelegþ, and ða ræftras tó ðære fyrste gefæstnaþ, Anglia viii. 324, 8.
figurative,
a support, foundation
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  • Ðonne hí ne beóþ mid nánre sylle underscotene ðæs godcundlícan mægenes

    nullis fulti virtutibus,

      Past. 1; Swt. 27, 17.
Etymology
[Sulle bassis, Wrt. Voc. i. 95, 38. Sylle of an howse silla, soliva, Prompt. Parv. 456. Til he came to the selle, upon the flore, Chauc. C. T. 3820. Icel. syll and sylla a sill: Dan. syld: Swed. syll. Cf. Goth. ga-suljan to lay a foundation: O. H. Ger. swelli; n. basis: Ger. schwelle. Also (?) Lat. solea.]
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v.  syl.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “syll.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/29980.

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