sile

• IPA^(key): /saɪl/
• Rhymes: -aɪl

From Middle English syle, from Old English sȳl (“column, pillar, support”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūli, from Proto-Germanic *sūliz (“beam, post, column, pillar”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱsewl-, *ḱswel- (“log”), from *ḱsew-, *ḱes- (“to scratch, comb”).

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

• syle, cyle (Scotland)

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.

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”).

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

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.
3. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To settle down; calm or compose oneself.
4. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To go; pass.
5. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To boil gently; simmer.
6. (intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To pour with rain.
   • 1888, John Hartley, Clock Almanack, page 14, quoted in the EDD:

     Th' rain had siled daan day and neet.

   • 1916, Country Life, page 407:

     and so when there come on a long rain it fairly "siled" down a steady beautiful rain, so different from that of a thunder-rain, the latter fairly teeming down just as the milk was teemed from the pails into the sile. Teeming and siling , though much akin, were two very different operations.

   • 1922, James Alpass Penny, More Folklore Round Horncastle, page 19:

     ... ya know what a wet un last year was, and how the rain siled down for days and days.

   • 2007 April 3, Kevin Rushby, Hunting Pirate Heaven: In Search of Lost Pirate Utopias, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:

     As the rain siled down outside, we discussed David Beckham, Ronaldo and Zidane – France's victory in the 1998 World Cup was fresh in their minds.

   • 2011 December 7, Paul Wordsworth, The Logic Bomb, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:

     ... unaware of the pouring freezing rain which siled down and saturated him and which ran down his lank hair and over his cold face. The gun dropped limply from his hand onto the soggy grass, where it hissed as steam rose from the hot muzzle. He stood outside in the dark […]

sile (plural siles)

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

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

sile (plural siles)

1. A young herring.

• sillock

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

From Proto-Finnic *siledä.

sile (genitive sileda, partitive siledat, comparative siledam, superlative kõige siledam)

1. smooth

• “sile”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “sile”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “sile”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• sile in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Probably from Swedish gelé.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsileˣ/, [ˈs̠ile̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ile
• Syllabification^(key): si‧le
• Hyphenation^(key): si‧le

sile (dialectal)

1. (Southwest Finnish) meat jelly

• aladobi

• Elsi

• IPA^(key): /sil/

sile

1. inflection of siler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

sile

1. analytic present subjunctive of sil

sile

1. genitive singular of sil

silē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sileō

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕi.lɛ/
• Rhymes: -ilɛ
• Syllabification: si‧le

sile f

1. dative/locative singular of siła

sile (Cyrillic spelling силе)

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

sile (Cyrillic spelling силе)

1. third-person plural present of siliti

Possibly a colloquial variant of sili due to /e/-/i/ allophony, or from Mexican Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsile/ [ˈsiː.lɛ]
• Rhymes: -ile
• Syllabification: si‧le

sile (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜎᜒ)

1. alternative form of sili