silt

• n. 汚泥、沈泥、炭塵、残留物
• vi.沈泥する；満ちる；沈泥で詰まる
• vt.沈泥する；詰まる

語源は古英語のsealt、塩、語源は塩。 もともとは海水の堆積物を指し、後にシルト、シルト、シルト、シルトなどの意味に派生した。

silt

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.

1. Without huge investment the reservoirs will silt up.

巨額の投資がなければ、ダムは間違いなく淀む。

2.During the annual floods the river deposits its silt on the fields.

毎年、川の水が氾濫すると田野に泥が堆積する。

3.The water contains fine silt .

水には細かい土砂が含まれている。

4.The channel is almost choked with silt .

水路には多くの土砂が堆積している。

5.The river deposited silt at its mouth.

河口にスラッジが堆積した。