Soil

Morpheme

Soil

Type

free base

Denotation

dirty, sully, stain, mar, ruin, filth

Etymology

Middl English soile, soilen, soulen; marger of (1) Old French soille, soillier, souillier and (2) Old English solian, sylian

Evidence

soil, soilage, soiled, soiling, soils, unsoiled

Notes

sense influenced by Soil

See Also

Soil

Homographs

Soil, Soil