dell

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) delle, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English Template:recons, from Template:proto, diminutive of Template:proto, from Template:proto. Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch (deprecated template usage) del, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German dialectal (deprecated template usage) Telle.

Pronunciation

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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. Template: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 Template:proto, from Template:proto (compare Latin (deprecated template usage) fīlum, Lithuanian (deprecated template usage) gýsla, Serbo-Croatian (deprecated template usage) žȉla).

Noun

dell m (plural dej)

1. Template:anatomy tendon
2. sinew

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Maltese

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic (deprecated template usage) ظِلّ (ʐell).

Noun

dell m

1. shade

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Manx

Verb

dell (verbal noun dellal)

1. to negotiate, deal, trade, traffic