Etymograph

English

hyl

Hyl comes from Greek ύλη ‘matter’, and goes back to Ancient Greek ὕλη.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὕληhúlē‘matter’
  2. Greek1453–presentύληýli‘matter’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2000hyl

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὕληhúlē‘matter’
  2. Greek1453–presentύληýli‘matter’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2000hyl

Earliest quotation: 2000, Gérard P. Michon, What is a slug, in the [engineering] weight measurement syst: “A mass of one hyl gets accelerated at a…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *swel- ‘firewood, wood, beam’

swell, swollen, methyl, ethane, swole, swill, isopropyl, ethyl, phenyl, 33 more

Today it means

noun A unit of mass that is accelerated at a rate of 1 meter per second squared (1 m/s²) by a force of 1 kilogram-force, equivalent to 9.80665 kilograms.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Ancient Greek ὕλη / hyl

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