Etymology

sillon

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Today it means: A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it. Full definition →

French sillon
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromsillon
  2. French · borrowed fromsillon
  3. English todaysillon

Borrowed from French sillon (“furrow”).

Words from the same roots

Frenchsillon all →

selionsillion

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.