The story
- Latin · derived fromselio“a measure of land”
- French · derived fromsillon“a ridge, furrow”
- Old French · derived fromseillon“a measure of land”
- English todayselion
Old French seillon (“a measure of land”), French sillon (“a ridge, furrow”), Latin selio (“a measure of land”).
Words from the same roots
Frenchsillon all →
sillionsillon
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.