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THRESHOLD , the See also:door-See also:- SILL
- SILL (O.Eng. syl, Mid. E. sylle, selle; the word appears in Icel. syll, svill, Swed. syll, and Dan. syld, and in German, as Schwelle; Skeat refers to the Teutonic root swal-, swell, the word meaning the rise or swell formed by a beam at a threshold; the L
- SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND (1841-1887)
sill, the piece of See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone or See also:wood which is placed at the bottom of a door, See also:gate, or entrance to a See also:house or other See also:building. The word is used in See also:psychology as the See also:equivalent of Ger. Schwelle and of See also:Lat. limen, i.e. the lowest limit of sensation, the point at which the intensity of sensation becomes just noticeable. Etymologically threshold (O. Eng. herscold, M. Eng. hreswold) has usually been divided " thresh," i.e. thrash, See also:beat, and wold, wald, wood; the word meaning the pieces of wood beaten or trampled by the feet. The termination, as is shown by the Old See also:English See also:form, has probably no connexion with wald, but is merely a suffix, as in O. H. Ger. driscilfli, threshold. The first See also:part is certainly " thrash," beat; some have supposed that in See also:early times the entrance to a house was used as a threshing-See also:floor.
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