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See also: Kyle and kýle

English

Etymology

The Kyles of Bute, a series of narrow sea channels between the Isle of Bute and the Cowal peninsula, seen from Tighnabruaich in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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).

Pronunciation

Noun

kyle (plural kyles)

  1. (Scotland) A narrow arm or channel of the sea between an island and the mainland, or between two islands.
    Synonyms: firth, narrow, sound, strait
    • 1877 January, Shairp, “The Clearing of the Glens”, in Alexander Mackenzie, editor, The Celtic Magazine: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad, volume II, number XV, Inverness, Inverness-shire: A. & W. Mackenzie, , →OCLC, canto IV (The Home by Lochburn), stanza IV, page 104:
      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;

Derived terms

Translations

References

  1. ^ kyle, n.2”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2021; kyle, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From Icelandic kýla.

Verb

kyle (imperative kyl, infinitive at kyle, present tense kyler, past tense kylede, perfect tense har kylet)

  1. to throw, hurl, sling (angrily or carelessly)
    Synonym: smide
    1. (figurative) to throw out, expel

Conjugation

Conjugation of kyle
active passive
present kyler kyles
past kylede
infinitive kyle kyles
imperative kyl
participle
present kylende
past kylet
(auxiliary verb have)
gerund kylen

Nisenan

Noun

kyle

  1. woman

References

  • Andrew Eatough, Central Hill Nisenan Texts with Grammatical Sketch

Scots

Noun

kyle (plural kyles)

  1. a ninepin; a skittle