Soil Definition
- life and work on a farm
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Soil
- the soil
Origin of Soil
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From Middle English soilen, soulen, suylen (“to sully, make dirty"), partly from Old French soillier, souillier (“to soil, make dirty, wallow in mire"), from Old Frankish *sauljan, *sulljan (“to make dirty, soil"); partly from Old English solian, sylian (“to soil, make dirty"), from Proto-Germanic *sulwōnÄ…, *sulwijanÄ…, *saulijanÄ… (“to soil, make dirty"), from Proto-Indo-European *sÅ«l- (“thick liquid"). Cognate with Old Saxon sulian (“to soil, mire"), Middle Dutch soluwen, seulewen (“to soil, besmirch"), Old High German solagōn, bisullen (“to make dirty"), German dialectal sühlen (“to soil, make dirty"), Danish søle (“to make dirty, defile"), Swedish söla (“to soil, make dirty"), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bisauljan, “to bemire").
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English soile, soyle, sule (“ground, earth"), partly from Anglo-Norman soyl (“bottom, ground, pavement"), from Latin solium (“seat, threshold, place"), mistaken for Latin solum (“ground, foundation, earth, sole of the foot"); and partly from Old English sol (“mud, mire, wet sand"), from Proto-Germanic *sulÄ… (“mud, spot"), from Proto-Indo-European *sÅ«l- (“thick liquid"). Cognate with Middle Low German söle (“dirt, mud"), Middle Dutch sol (“dirt, filth"), Middle High German sol, söl (“dirt, mud, mire"), Danish søle (“mud, muck"). See also sole, soal.
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English soyl, from Old French soil, souil (“quagmire, marsh"), from Frankish *sōlja, *saulja (“mire, miry place, wallow"), from Proto-Germanic *sauljō (“mud, puddle, feces"), from Proto-Indo-European *sÅ«l- (“thick liquid"). Cognate with Old English syle, sylu, sylen (“miry place, wallow"), Old High German sol, gisol (“miry place"), German Suhle (“a wallow, mud pit, muddy pool").
From Wiktionary
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Middle English soilen from Old French souiller from Vulgar Latin suculāre (from Late Latin suculus) (diminutive of Latin sūs pig sū- in Indo-European roots) or from souil wallow of a wild boar (from Latin solium seat, bathtub soil1)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English from Anglo-Norman a piece of ground (influenced in meaning by Latin solum soil) from Latin solium seat sed- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Old French saoler, saouler (“to satiate").
From Wiktionary
Origin unknown
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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