Etymology

sillion

sil·li·on
S1I1L1L1I1O1N1

Today it means: The thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plow. Full definition →

French sillon
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The story

  1. French · derived fromsillon“furrow”
  2. English todaysillion

Revived by Gerard Manley Hopkins in his 1877 (published posthumously in 1918) poem The Windhover; ultimately related to French sillon (“furrow”).

Words from the same roots

Frenchsillon all →

selionsillon

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.