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.

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

Declension of sile (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		sile	siledad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	sileda
genitive			siledate
partitive		siledat	siledaid
illative		siledasse	siledatesse siledaisse
inessive		siledas	siledates siledais
elative		siledast	siledatest siledaist
allative		siledale	siledatele siledaile
adessive		siledal	siledatel siledail
ablative		siledalt	siledatelt siledailt
translative		siledaks	siledateks siledaiks
terminative		siledani	siledateni
essive		siledana	siledatena
abessive		siledata	siledateta
comitative		siledaga	siledatega

• “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
• 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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
sile	shile after an, tsile	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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