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kyle

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See also:Kyleandkýle

WOTD – 30 November 2021

FromScottish Gaeliccaol(“narrow; thin; firth, narrows, strait, kyle; narrow part of something”) (genitive singular formcaoil),^[1] fromOld Irishcoíl(“narrow, slender”), fromProto-Celtic*koilos(“thin”), fromProto-Indo-European*skey-(“to dissect; to split”).

kyle (pluralkyles)

(Scotland) Anarrowarm orchannel of thesea between anisland and themainland, or betweentwo islands.
Synonyms:firth,narrow,sound,strait
- 1877 January,[John Campbell] Shairp, “The Clearing of the Glens”, inAlexander Mackenzie, editor,The Celtic Magazine: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad, volume II, number XV, Inverness, Inverness-shire: A. & W. Mackenzie, […],→OCLC, canto IV (The Home by Lochburn), stanza IV,page104:
  [T]hough remote / From the main ocean many a mile / Inflooded past cape, creek, andkyle, / The sea-loch flanked by precipice walls, / With ever-lessening murmur crawls, / Till 'neath the Pass he lies subdued / By the o'er-aweing solitude;[…]