Etymograph

English

keeill

Keeill comes from Manx keeill ‘church’, from Latin cella ‘a small room, a hut, storeroom’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- ‘to cover’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱel-‘to cover’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcella‘a small room, a hut, storeroom’
  3. Old Irishc. 600–900cell‘church’
  4. Manxmodernkeeill‘church’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1958same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱel-‘to cover’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcella‘a small room, a hut, storeroom’
  3. Old Irishc. 600–900cell‘church’
  4. Manxmodernkeeill‘church’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1958same form

Earliest quotation: 1958, Annie Ashley, The Church in the Isle of Man: “The division into sheadings and into (early secular) parishes…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- ‘to cover’

color, hell, hole, hall, holder, helmet, halt, hull, ceiling, hollow, cellular, helm, holden, conceal, uphold, cellar, occult, clandestine, sari, cellulose, sala, cellulite, recline, cilia, declination, declension, tricolour, holing, haugh, halberd, hele, cella, seel, 31 more

through Latin cella ‘a small room, a hut, storeroom’

cell, 8 more

Today it means

noun A small monastic cell or chapel (especially during the pre-modern period).

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- / keeill

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