English

hilling

From hill + -ing.

A compound of hill + -ing

Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís ‘top, hill, rock’

Proto-Germanic *hulliz ‘hill’

Proto-West Germanic *hulli ‘hill’

Old English hyll ‘hill’

Middle English hil ‘hill’

English hill

Today it means

noun The act or process of heaping up earth around plants.

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