kyle
Substantivhäufig in Dialogen
- Vereinigte Staaten//kaɪl//
A narrow arm or channel of the sea between an island and the mainland, or between two islands.
Substantiv
- 1
A narrow arm or channel of the sea between an island and the mainland, or between two islands.
[T]hough remote / From the main ocean many a mile / Inflooded past cape, creek, and kyle, / The sea-loch flanked by precipice walls, / With ever-lessening murmur crawls, / Till 'neath the Pass he lies subdued / By the o'er-aweing solitude; […]
Herkunft
From Scottish Gaelic caol (“narrow; thin; firth, narrows, strait, kyle; narrow part of something”) (genitive singular form caoil), from Old Irish coíl (“narrow, slender”), from Proto-Celtic *koilos (“thin”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect; to split”).
Formen
- Plural
- kyles
kyle · A narrow arm or channel of the sea between an island and the mainland, or between two islands.
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