What is the name meaning of SILL. Phrases containing SILL
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SILL
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Selman.German (Sillmann) : possibly a variant of Sieler, or a topographic name for someone living on a ridge, from Low German süll, sill ‘sill’, ‘threshold’, ‘ramp’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Silley, a variant of Seeley. This is a frequent NH name.Americanized spelling of German Zille, perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a bargee, from Middle High German zülle ‘barge’, mainly used in Saxony and the Berlin area.Americanized form of South German Killer, a variant of Kilian, or a habitational name from a place near Hechingen (Württemberg).
Boy/Male
British, English
From Sill's Farm
Biblical
exalting
Boy/Male
Latin
Of the forest.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a medieval personal name, a short form of Silvester (see Silvester) or Silvanus (see Silvano).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a person with a cheerful disposition, from Middle English seely ‘happy’, ‘fortunate’ (Old English sǣlig, from sǣl ‘happiness’, ‘good fortune’). The word was also occasionally used as a female personal name during the Middle Ages. The sense ‘pitiable’, which developed into modern English silly, is not attested before the 15th century.Altered form of German Seele, respelled to preserve the bisyllabic pronunciation of the German name.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for a silk merchant, from Middle English selk(e), silk(e) ‘silk’.English : from a medieval personal name, a back-formation from Silkin (see Sill).Irish (Galway) : Anglicized form (part translation) of Gaelic Ó SÃoda (see Sheedy).Americanized form (translation) of German and Jewish Seide or Seid.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Sill.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a silly person, from Middle English golle ‘unfledged bird’. There is evidence of a female personal name Golla and it is possible that this also may have given rise to the surname.German and Swiss German : unflattering nickname from dialect goll ‘bullfinch’, in the sense ‘simpleton’; or perhaps a variant of Gollmann (see Goleman 2).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a meek person, from Middle English daffte ‘mild’, ‘gentle’, ‘meek’ (Old English gedæfte). It was not until the 15th century, toward the end of the main period of surname formation in England, that the word came to mean ‘stupid’, ‘silly’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from a pet form of Sill.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Exalting.
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Male
English
English and Scottish patronymic surname transferred to forename use, JAMIESON means "son of Jamie."
Male
Hindi/Indian
Variant form of Hindi Manindra, MANINDER means "mind of Indra."
Male
French
French form of Latin Clement, CLÉMENT means "gentle and merciful."
Male
English
A dialectal variant spelling of English Dean, DANE means "dean; ecclesiastical supervisor."
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Fair Complexioned
Girl/Female
Australian, French
From the High Tower; Woman from Magdala
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Golder.
Boy/Male
Irish
Descendents of Ciar'. The name of a county of Ireland. Used for both genders.
Girl/Female
Tamil
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The name of a sacred river
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Fond of Dancing
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n.
The quality or state of being silly.
n.
Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.
a.
Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill.
n.
The pollock, or coalfish; -- called also sillock.
n.
The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.
n. sing. & pl.
A weak, bashful, silly fellow.
n.
One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.
a.
Silly.
n.
A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.
n.
A sill.
a.
Weak in intellect; half-witted; silly.
a.
Silly; simple-minded; stupid.
v. t.
An old story; a silly tale.
v. i. & t.
To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.
n.
Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
adv.
In a silly manner; foolishly.
v. t.
To lay stones, masonry, etc., under, as the sills of a building, on which it is to rest.
n.
Silly talk; gabble; fustian.
n.
Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.
n.
A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard.