sel

See also: Sel, SEL, sèl, sêl, šel, -sel, and sel-

Translingual

Symbol

sel

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Selkup.

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch cel, from Middle Dutch celle, from Latin cella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛl/

Noun

sel (plural selle)

1. cell (element of a table)
2. cell (basic unit of a living organism)
3. cell (small room, especially in a jail or prison)

Derived terms

• selmaat

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Cahuilla

Alternative forms

• sé'ish

Noun

sél

1. flower

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛl]
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Verb

sel

1. masculine singular past participle of sít

   Synonym: sil

Noun

sel

1. genitive plural of selo

Anagrams

• Els
• les

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Estonian

Pronoun

sel

1. adessive singular of see

   Synonym: sellel

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Extremaduran

Verb

sel

1. to be

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French

Etymology

From Middle French sel, from Old French sel, from Latin sāl, salem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛl/

• audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: celle, celles, selle, sellent, selles, sels

Noun

sel m (plural sels)

1. table salt, i.e. sodium chloride (NaCl)
2. (chemistry) salt
3. (in the plural) smelling salts

Derived terms

• cuillère à sel
• fin comme du gros sel
• fleur de sel
• mettre son grain de sel
• ne pas manquer de sel
• pâte à sel
• poivre et sel
• ramener son grain de sel
• sel de cuisine
• sel de table

 

Related terms

• saler

Further reading

• “sel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• les, lès, lés

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch cel (“cell”), from Middle Dutch celle, from Latin cella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛl]
• Hyphenation: sèl

Noun

sèl (first-person possessive selku, second-person possessive selmu, third-person possessive selnya)

1. cell
   1. a small room or compartment
      1. prison cell
      2. cloister cell
   2. (biology) basic unit of a living organism
   3. the basic unit of a battery

Derived terms

• bersel
• disel

 

Related terms

• selofan
• seluler
• selulit
• selulitis
• seluloid
• selulosa

 

Further reading

• “sel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Michoacán Nahuatl

Noun

sel

1. ice

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French sel.

Noun

sel m (plural sels)

1. salt

Descendants

• French: sel

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse selr.

Noun

sel m (definite singular selen, indefinite plural seler, definite plural selene)

1. a seal (marine mammal)

See also

• sjøløve
• hvalross, kvalross

References

• “sel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

ein sel
Photo: Donna Nook (2010)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse selr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːl/
• Homophone: sæl

Noun

sel m (definite singular selen, indefinite plural selar, definite plural selane)

1. (zoology) a seal, pinniped

Derived terms

• blåsel
• ekte sel
• fjordsel
• grønlandssel
• gråsel
• pelssel
• ringsel
• selfangar
• selfangst
• selkjøt
• selkjøtt
• selskinn
• selspekk
• selunge
• ungsel
• øyresel

 

See also

• sjøløve
• kvalross

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sel n, from Proto-Germanic *salją.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːl/
• Homophone: sæl

Noun

sel n (definite singular selet, indefinite plural sel, definite plural sela)

1. a seter cottage, with sleeping room(s), a kitchen and a dairy storage room

Derived terms

• innsel
• utsel

Related terms

• sal m

Etymology 3

From Middle Low German sel (“soul”), as does also ultimately sjel. From Old Saxon sēola, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːl/
• Homophone: sæl

Noun

sel f

1. a soul; Used only in the expression mi sel (“truly!”).

Etymology 4

From the verb selja (“to sell”).

Noun

sel n (definite singular selet, indefinite plural sel, definite plural sela)

1. (rare) a sale

   Synonym: sal n

Verb

sel

1. present tense of selja and selje
2. imperative of selje and selje

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːl/
• Homophone: sæl

Verb

sel

1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of sela and sele

References

• “sel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Sel, esl, les, -sel, -sle

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Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *salą, from Indo-European. Cognate with Old High German sal, German Saal (“hall, large room”), Old Saxon sal, Dutch zaal. Compare sele, from a Germanic variant stem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sel/

Noun

sel n

1. room, great hall, (large) house, castle

   Heorot, sincfāge sel ― Heorot, richly adorned hall.

Related terms

• anseld
• bēagsel, bēagsele
• carseld
• eþelseld
• geselda
• meduseld (mead-hall)
• seld, sæld
• selda
• seldguma
• sumorselde
• winterseld

Descendants

• English: sele, seel

Etymology 2

See sælig (“blessed, fortunate”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːl/

Adjective

sēl (comparative sēlla, superlative sēlest)

1. good, noble

   Sōna ic wæs wyrpende and mē sēl wæs. ― Soon I was recovering and I was better.

Declension

Declension of sēl — Strong

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	sēl	sēl	sēl
Accusative	sēlne	sēle	sēl
Genitive	sēles	sēlre	sēles
Dative	sēlum	sēlre	sēlum
Instrumental	sēle	sēlre	sēle
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	sēle	sēla, sēle	sēl
Accusative	sēle	sēla, sēle	sēl
Genitive	sēlra	sēlra	sēlra
Dative	sēlum	sēlum	sēlum
Instrumental	sēlum	sēlum	sēlum

Declension of sēl — Weak

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	sēla	sēle	sēle
Accusative	sēlan	sēlan	sēle
Genitive	sēlan	sēlan	sēlan
Dative	sēlan	sēlan	sēlan
Instrumental	sēlan	sēlan	sēlan
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	sēlan	sēlan	sēlan
Accusative	sēlan	sēlan	sēlan
Genitive	sēlra, sēlena	sēlra, sēlena	sēlra, sēlena
Dative	sēlum	sēlum	sēlum
Instrumental	sēlum	sēlum	sēlum

Related terms

• medsēlþ

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) “sel”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sel”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin sāl, salem.

Noun

sel oblique singular, m (oblique plural seaus or seax or siaus or siax or sels, nominative singular seaus or seax or siaus or siax or sels, nominative plural sel)

1. salt

Descendants

• Middle French: sel
  • French: sel
• Norman: sé, saïl
• Walloon: sé

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Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *salją, diminutive of either *salą or *saliz.

Noun

sel n

1. shed on a mountain pasture

Declension

  Declension of sel (strong ja-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sel	selit	sel	selin
accusative	sel	selit	sel	selin
dative	seli	selinu	seljum	seljunum
genitive	sels	selsins	selja	seljanna

Descendants

• Norwegian Nynorsk: sel n
• Norwegian Bokmål: sel n

References

• “sel”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

sel

1. indefinite accusative singular of selr (“seal”)

Verb

sel

1. inflection of selja (“to sell”):
   1. first-person singular active present indicative
   2. second-person singular active imperative

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) sal

Etymology

From Latin sāl, sālem, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls.

Noun

sel m

1. (Puter) salt

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Scots

Etymology

From Middle English self, silf, sulf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz.

Noun

sel

1. self

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sъlъ, from the same root as sláti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sə́l/, /sə́ʋ/

Noun

sə̏l or sə̏ł m anim

1. messenger

Inflection

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Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	sel
gen. sing.	sla
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	sel	sla	sli
genitive (rodȋlnik)	sla	slov	slov
dative (dajȃlnik)	slu	sloma	slom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	sla	sla	sle
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	slu	slih	slih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	slom	sloma	sli

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Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

From English sail.

Noun

sel

1. sail
2. canvas; tarpaulin

Derived terms

• haus sel

Descendants

• → Rotokas: siel

Verb

sel

1. to sail

Etymology 2

From English shell.

Noun

sel

1. shell
2. shellfish

Etymology 3

From English cell.

Noun

sel

1. cell (biology)

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish سل (sel), a vulgar variant of سیل (seyl), from Arabic سَيْل (sayl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsæl/
• Hyphenation: sel

Noun

sel (definite accusative seli, plural seller)

1. flood

Derived terms

sel seli götürmek

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “sel”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 2647
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “sel”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2735