selja
Estonian
Noun
selja
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse selja (“sell”), from Proto-Germanic *saljaną.
Verb
selja (third person singular past indicative seldi, third person plural past indicative selt, supine selt)
- to sell
Conjugation
Conjugation of selja (group v-21) | ||
---|---|---|
infinitive | selja | |
supine | selt | |
participle (a7)1 | seljandi | seldur |
present | past | |
first singular | selji | seldi |
second singular | selur | seldi |
third singular | selur | seldi |
plural | selja | seldu |
imperative | ||
singular | sel! | |
plural | seljið! | |
1Only the past participle being declined. |
Synonyms
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian зе́лье (zélʹje, “potion; (archaic) plant”), so named because elder has (traditionally) been used as a medicinal plant.
Pronunciation
Noun
selja
- elder (tree)
Declension
Inflection of selja (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
---|---|---|---|
nominative | selja | seljat | |
genitive | seljan | seljojen | |
partitive | seljaa | seljoja | |
illative | seljaan | seljoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | selja | seljat | |
accusative | nom. | selja | seljat |
gen. | seljan | ||
genitive | seljan | seljojen seljain rare | |
partitive | seljaa | seljoja | |
inessive | seljassa | seljoissa | |
elative | seljasta | seljoista | |
illative | seljaan | seljoihin | |
adessive | seljalla | seljoilla | |
ablative | seljalta | seljoilta | |
allative | seljalle | seljoille | |
essive | seljana | seljoina | |
translative | seljaksi | seljoiksi | |
abessive | seljatta | seljoitta | |
instructive | — | seljoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
Anagrams
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse selja (“sell”), from Proto-Germanic *saljaną.
Verb
selja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative seldi, supine selt)
- (ditransitive) to sell
- Synonym: versla
- (ditransitive) to hand over
- Synonym: afhenda
Conjugation
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að selja | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
supine (sagnbót) |
selt | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
seljandi | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég seli | við seljum | present (nútíð) |
ég seli | við seljum |
þú selir | þið selið | þú selir | þið selið | ||
hann, hún, það selir | þeir, þær, þau selja | hann, hún, það seli | þeir, þær, þau seli | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég seldi | við seldum | past (þátíð) |
ég seldi | við seldum |
þú seldir | þið selduð | þú seldir | þið selduð | ||
hann, hún, það seldi | þeir, þær, þau seldu | hann, hún, það seldi | þeir, þær, þau seldu | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
sel (þú) | selið (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
seldu | seliði * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að seljast | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
supine (sagnbót) |
selst | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
seljandist ** ** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég selist | við seljumst | present (nútíð) |
ég selist | við seljumst |
þú selist | þið selist | þú selist | þið selist | ||
hann, hún, það selist | þeir, þær, þau seljast | hann, hún, það selist | þeir, þær, þau selist | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég seldist | við seldumst | past (þátíð) |
ég seldist | við seldumst |
þú seldist | þið seldust | þú seldist | þið seldust | ||
hann, hún, það seldist | þeir, þær, þau seldust | hann, hún, það seldist | þeir, þær, þau seldust | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
selst (þú) | selist (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
selstu | selisti * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
strong declension (sterk beyging) |
singular (eintala) | plural (fleirtala) | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) | ||
nominative (nefnifall) |
seldur | seld | selt | seldir | seldar | seld | |
accusative (þolfall) |
seldan | selda | selt | selda | seldar | seld | |
dative (þágufall) |
seldum | seldri | seldu | seldum | seldum | seldum | |
genitive (eignarfall) |
selds | seldrar | selds | seldra | seldra | seldra | |
weak declension (veik beyging) |
singular (eintala) | plural (fleirtala) | |||||
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) | ||
nominative (nefnifall) |
seldi | selda | selda | seldu | seldu | seldu | |
accusative (þolfall) |
selda | seldu | selda | seldu | seldu | seldu | |
dative (þágufall) |
selda | seldu | selda | seldu | seldu | seldu | |
genitive (eignarfall) |
selda | seldu | selda | seldu | seldu | seldu |
Etymology 2
From Old Norse selja (whence also Swedish sälg), from Proto-Germanic *salhijǭ, a variant of *salhô (whence English sallow).
Noun
selja f (genitive singular selju, nominative plural seljur)
Declension
Declension of selja | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
f-w1 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | selja | seljan | seljur | seljurnar |
accusative | selju | seljuna | seljur | seljurnar |
dative | selju | seljunni | seljum | seljunum |
genitive | selju | seljunnar | selja | seljanna |
Derived terms
- steinselja (“parsley, Petroselinum crispum”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Noun
selja m or f
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse selja (“sell”), from Proto-Germanic *saljaną.
Alternative forms
- selje (e infinitive)
Verb
selja (present tense sel, past tense selde, past participle selt, passive infinitive seljast, present participle seljande, imperative sel)
- to sell
- Dei selde mesteparten.
- They sold most of it.
Etymology 2
Noun
selja f
References
- “selja” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *saljaną.
Verb
selja
- (ditransitive) to hand over, deliver
- (transitive) to sell, part with
Conjugation
infinitive | selja | |
---|---|---|
present participle | seljandi | |
past participle | seldr | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | sel | selda |
2nd-person singular | selr | seldir |
3rd-person singular | selr | seldi |
1st-person plural | seljum | seldum |
2nd-person plural | selið | selduð |
3rd-person plural | selja | seldu |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | selja | selda |
2nd-person singular | selir | seldir |
3rd-person singular | seli | seldi |
1st-person plural | selim | seldim |
2nd-person plural | selið | seldið |
3rd-person plural | seli | seldi |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | sel | |
1st-person plural | seljum | |
2nd-person plural | selið |
infinitive | seljask | |
---|---|---|
present participle | seljandisk | |
past participle | selzk | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | seljumk | seldumk |
2nd-person singular | selsk | seldisk |
3rd-person singular | selsk | seldisk |
1st-person plural | seljumsk | seldumsk |
2nd-person plural | selizk | selduzk |
3rd-person plural | seljask | seldusk |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | seljumk | seldumk |
2nd-person singular | selisk | seldisk |
3rd-person singular | selisk | seldisk |
1st-person plural | selimsk | seldimsk |
2nd-person plural | selizk | seldizk |
3rd-person plural | selisk | seldisk |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | selsk | |
1st-person plural | seljumsk | |
2nd-person plural | selizk |
Descendants
- Icelandic: selja
- Faroese: selja
- Norwegian Nynorsk: selja
- Elfdalian: sela
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "gmq-bot" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF.
- Old Swedish: sælia
- Swedish: sälja
- Old Danish: sæliæ, sælæ
- Gutnish: säle
References
- “selja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *salhijǭ, *salhô, whence also English sallow, and by borrowing, Finnish salava.
Noun
selja f (genitive selju)
Declension
Descendants
References
- “selja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
selja
- Estonian non-lemma forms
- Estonian noun forms
- Faroese terms inherited from Old Norse
- Faroese terms derived from Old Norse
- Faroese terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Faroese terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Faroese lemmas
- Faroese verbs
- Finnish terms borrowed from Russian
- Finnish terms derived from Russian
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/eljɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/eljɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish entries with topic categories using raw markup
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- fi:Trees
- Icelandic 2-syllable words
- Icelandic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Icelandic/ɛlja
- Rhymes:Icelandic/ɛlja/2 syllables
- Icelandic terms inherited from Old Norse
- Icelandic terms derived from Old Norse
- Icelandic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Icelandic lemmas
- Icelandic verbs
- Icelandic weak verbs
- Icelandic entries with topic categories using raw markup
- Icelandic ditransitive verbs
- Icelandic nouns
- Icelandic feminine nouns
- Icelandic countable nouns
- is:Willows and poplars
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål noun forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with usage examples
- Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk noun forms
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse verbs
- Old Norse ditransitive verbs
- Old Norse transitive verbs
- Old Norse class 1 weak short-stem verbs
- Old Norse nouns
- Old Norse feminine nouns
- non:Trees
- Old Norse jōn-stem nouns
- Old Norse non-lemma forms
- Old Norse noun forms