英语词汇sill的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	sill
词源	sill n. Middle English sille, from Old English syll "beam, threshold, large timber serving as a foundation of a wall," from Proto-Germanic suljo (source also of Old Norse svill, Swedish syll, Danish syld "framework of a building," Middle Low German sull, Old High German swelli, German Schwelle "sill"), perhaps from PIE root swel- (3) "post, board" (source also of Greek selma "beam"). The meaning "lower horizontal part of a window opening" is recorded from early 15c.; extended to the lower part of the case or frame of a door by 1590s. Used in geology in reference to certain types of rock beds or layers from 1794. Entries linking to sill cill alternative spelling of sill. mudsill n. 1680s, "foundation beam of a dam, railroad, house, or other structure," from mud + sill. The word entered U.S. political history in a figurative sense in a speech by James M. Hammond (1807-1864) of South Carolina, March 4, 1858, in the U.S. Senate, alluding to the necessary lowest of society. In the speech he also took the ground that Northern white laborers were slaves in fact, if not in name. The term subsequently was embraced by Northern workers in the pre-Civil War sectional rivalry. In all social systems there must be a to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. This is a requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a you must have, or you would not have that other which leads progress, civilization, and refinement. It constitutes the very mud-sill of society and of political government; and you might as well attempt to build a house in the air as to build either the one or the other except on this mud-sill. [Hammond] windowsill n. also window-sill, 1703, from window (n.) + sill (n.). updated on October 27, 2022
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