silt

From Middle English silte, cilte, cylte, perhaps from Middle English silen ("to filter; strain"; equivalent to sile +‎ -t), or cognate with Norwegian and Danish sylt (“salt marsh”), Middle Low German sulte (“salt-marsh”), German Sulze, Sülze (“brine”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“salty water; brine”). Related to Old English sealt (“salt”).

• IPA^(key): /sɪlt/
• Rhymes: -ɪlt

silt (countable and uncountable, plural silts)

1. (uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

   Synonym: slitch

2. (uncountable, by extension) Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
3. (countable, geology) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

• alluvium
• varve

silt (third-person singular simple present silts, present participle silting, simple past and past participle silted)

1. (transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
2. (intransitive) To become clogged with silt.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To flow through crevices; to percolate.

• silt up
• silting
• desilt and desilting

• &lits, List, list, lits, slit, tils

silt n (plural silten)

1. (geology) silt

• siltsteen

• list, stil

From English silt

silt (definite singular silten)

1. silt

• siltstein

• “silt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English silt

silt (definite singular silten)

1. silt

• siltstein

• “silt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.