Stilled
/stɪld/noun
Past tense and past participle of still, meaning to make or become quiet, calm, or motionless.
Did you know?Still ultimately comes from a Germanic root meaning “fixed” or “steady,” the same deep root behind words like stall, install, and distill—so to be “stilled” is to be linguistically set in place.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*stellaz / *stillaz
“Fixed, still, steady”
Old English
OE
stille
“Quiet, motionless, calm”
Middle English
ME
stillen
“To make quiet; to calm or pacify”
Modern English
English
still
“Not moving, silent, or calm”
Modern English
English
stilled
“Made quiet, calmed, or rendered motionless”