zuil
Dutch (Brabantic)
/zœy̯l/
noun
Definitions
- (architecture) pillar, support
- (society) pillar, institutional subgrouping of society along ideological or religious lines
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch suul inherited from Old Dutch sūl inherited from *sūli inherited from Proto-Germanic *sūliz (pillar, column, beam, post).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*sūliz
Gloss
pillar, column, beam, post
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
柱
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- sile English
- silt English
- Säule German
- -e- Dutch, Flemish
- eer Dutch, Flemish
- eerzuil Dutch, Flemish
- erezuil Dutch, Flemish
- galerij Dutch, Flemish
- minizuil Dutch, Flemish
- verzuiling Dutch, Flemish
- zuilengalerij Dutch, Flemish
- *ḱsewl- Proto-Indo-European
- *sūliz Proto-Germanic
- syl Old English
- sȳl Old English
- syle Middle English
- súla Old Norse
- sule Danish
- suul Middle Dutch
- sūl Old High German
- Sail Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐍃 Gothic
- *sūli gmw-pro
- sūl Old Dutch