kyle

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English

Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic caol (“narrow; thin; firth, narrows, strait, kyle; narrow part of something”) (genitive singular form caoil), from Old Irish cáel (“narrow, slender, thin; delicate, fine”), 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

Derived terms

• Kyle of Lochalsh
• Kyle of Sutherland
• Kyle of Tongue

Translations

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

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