Synonyme
acclivity,
ascent,
bluff,
butte,
cliff,
climb,
down,
drift,
dune,
elevation,
eminence,
esker,
fell,
gradient,
headlandEtymologie
[ hil ] (noun.) before 12th century. From Middle English, from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“stone, rock”), from Proto-Indo-European *kolən-, *koləm- (“top, hill, rock”). Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle (“hill”), Low Saxon hull (“hill”), Old Norse hallr (“stone”), Latin collis (“hill”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.