dell

English

Etymology

From Middle English delle, from Old English *dell (“small dale”), from Proto-Germanic *daljō (“a hollow, abyss”), diminutive of Proto-Germanic *dalą (“valley, dale”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰol-, *dʰel- (“an arch, vaulting, curve, curvature, cavity”). Cognate with Dutch del (“a dell”), German dialectal Telle (“a hollow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɛl/ X-SAMPA: /dEl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

dell (plural dells)

1. valley
   • 1794, William Blake, The Little Girl Found, lines 49-50

     To this day they dwell

     In a lonely dell.

   • Tickell

     In dells and dales, concealed from human sight.

2. (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
   • Ben Jonson

     Sweet doxies and dells.

Synonyms

• dale
• dingle
• vale
• valley
• See also Wikisaurus:valley

Translations

valley — see valley

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *daislā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-slo (compare Latin fīlum, Lithuanian gýsla, Serbo-Croatian žȉla).

Noun

dell m (indefinite plural dej)

1. (anatomy) tendon
2. sinew

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Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ظِلّ (ʐell).

Noun

dell m

1. shade

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Manx

Verb

dell (verbal noun dellal)

1. to negotiate, deal, trade, traffic

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
dell	ghell	nell
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.