silt: [15] The likelihood is that silt originally referred to the mud in salt flats by river estuaries, and that it is etymologically related to salt. It was probably borrowed from a Scandinavian word – Danish and Norwegian have the apparently related sylt ‘salt marsh’. => salt
silt (n.)
mid-15c., originally "sediment deposited by seawater," probably from a Scandinavian source (compare Norwegian and Danish sylt "salt marsh"), or from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch silte, sulte "salt marsh, brine," from Proto-Germanic *sultjo- (cognates: Old English sealt, Old High German sulza "saltwater," German Sulze "brine"), from PIE *sal- (see salt (n.)).
silt (v.)
"to become choked with silt" (of river channels, harbors, etc.), 1799, from silt (n.). Related: Silted; silting.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. Without huge investment the reservoirs will silt up.
如果沒(méi)有巨額投資的話(huà)，水庫(kù)肯定會(huì)淤塞。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. During the annual floods the river deposits its silt on the fields.