silla

chair; saddle

Related: sillón, caballo de silla, juego de las sillas, silla de la reina, silla de montar, sillería, sillero, sillín, ensillar, el que fue a Melipilla perdió su silla

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sed- Proto-Indo-European *-leh₂ Proto-Indo-European *sedleh₂ Proto-Italic *sedlā Latin sella Old Spanish siella Spanish silla Inherited from Old Spanish siella (“chair, saddle”), from Latin sella. Cognate with Asturian and Leonese siella (“chair”), Catalan sella (“saddle”), French selle (“saddle”), Galician and Portuguese sela (“saddle”), Italian sella (“saddle”), and Romanian șa (“saddle”); as well as distantly English saddle.