kyle

English Online Dictionary. What means kyle‎? What does kyle mean?

English

Etymology

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

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /kaɪl/
• Homophones: chyle, kile, Kyle
• Rhymes: -aɪl

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

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References

Further reading

• strait on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• kyle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “kyle”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Lyke, lyke, yelk

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

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