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Irish
Verb
silim
- first-person singular present indicative/imperative of sil
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
silim (Cyrillic spelling силим)
- first-person singular present of siliti
Sumerian
Romanization
silim
- Romanization of 𒁲 (silim)
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *siləm (“fade from sight”). Compare Maguindanao silam and Malay silam.
Pronunciation
Noun
silim (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜎᜒᜋ᜔)
- dusk
- Synonym: dapithapon
- breaking water; amniorrhexis in childbirth (leakage of amniotic fluid before giving birth)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “silim”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*silem”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI