sils
Pronunciation: [sils]
“sils” is a Latvian word. Its meaning in English:
noun
Etymology
From an earlier *silas, from Proto-Baltic *šil-, from Proto-Indo-European *sḱl̥-, the zero grade of *skel-, *sḱel-, perhaps from *kel-, *ḱel- (“to dry up”) (whence also Latvian kalst “to dry up”) + *s- (an s-mobile), or perhaps by metathesis from *ks-el-, from *ḱes- (< *ḱs-eH-), *ḱsā- (“burned, dried up”) (whence Ancient Greek ξερός (xerós), ξηρός (xērós) “dry” and Sanskrit क्षायति (kṣā́yati) “to…
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