-sel
See also: Appendix:Variations of "sel"
Afrikaans
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch -sel, from Middle Dutch -sel, from Old Dutch -isli, from Proto-West Germanic *-islī.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Suffix
[edit]-sel
- -age, -ion; Creates nouns from verbs indicating something which performs or has undergone an action or is the result of the action.
Derived terms
[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse -sl, -sla, Old English -els. Related to -else.
Suffix
[edit]-sel
- Forms nouns from verbs with the sense of "the act of verbing", or a sense otherwise related to the act of verbing.
Usage notes
[edit]Nouns formed with -sel can be of either gender. In declensions, -e- is elided by most speakers (thus e.g. brændsel, brændslet, brændsler, brændslerne), which is prescribed by Dansk Sprognævn.[1]
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “-sel” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch -sel, from Old Dutch -isli, from Proto-West Germanic *-islī. Cognate with German -sel, Old English -else, Swedish -else.
Suffix
[edit]-sel n
- -age, -ion; Creates nouns indicating something which performs or has undergone an action, or something which results from the action.
- Examples:
- toevoegen (“to add”) + -sel → toevoegsel (“addition, appendix”)
- bakken (“to bake”) + -sel → baksel (“bake-age, something that has been baked”)
- verschijnen (“to appear”) + -sel → verschijnsel (“appearance, something that appears”)
- Examples:
Derived terms
[edit]Estonian
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-sel
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *-islī.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-sel (n)
- Creates nouns from verbs, meaning something which is a fragment of the target of a verb, whether mechanically created or by intellectual activity
Derived terms
[edit]Low German
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-sel
- alternative form of -else
Middle Low German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-sel
- alternative form of -else
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-sel m or f
- used to form nouns from verbs.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “-sel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-sel m
- used to form nouns from verbs.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “-sel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Plautdietsch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Low German --sel, -else, from Old Saxon -isli, from Proto-West Germanic *-islī. Cognate with German -sel, Dutch -sel.
Suffix
[edit]-sel n
- Creates nouns indicating something which performs or has undergone an action, or something which results from the action.
- Examples:
- aufbieten (“to bite off”) + -sel → Aufbietsel (“bite”)
- aufhoakjen (“to rake off”) + -sel → Aufhoakjsel (“gleanings”)
- Examples:
Derived terms
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-sel
- making a noun from a verb
Derived terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined from the last three letters of the universel (“universal”) during the Turkish language reform. First used in evrensel, the equivalent of the same word (1934). Ultimately derived from Latin -alis.
| preceding vowel | |
|---|---|
| a / ı / o / u | e / i / ö / ü |
| -sal | -sel |
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-sel
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “+sAl”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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