seil

See also: Seil, Séil, Séïl, and -seil

Ingrian

Noun

seil

1. adessive plural of setä

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *segil, from Proto-West Germanic *segl, from Proto-Germanic *seglą.

Noun

seil n

1. sail

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• sêel
• sēgel

Derived terms

• seilen

Descendants

• Dutch: zeil
• Limburgish: zèèl

Further reading

• “seil”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “seil (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse segl.

Alternative forms

• segl (Etymology 2)

Noun

seil n (definite singular seilet, indefinite plural seil, definite plural seila or seilene)

1. a sail (piece of fabric attached to a boat's mast)

Derived terms

• råseil
• seilbåt
• seilfartøy
• seilfly
• seilskip
• seilskute
• seilsport
• storseil
• toppseil

 

Etymology 2

Verb

seil

1. imperative of seile

References

• “seil” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English sele (“happiness, good fortune, bliss”), from Old English sæl (“happiness, prosperity”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālī, from Proto-Germanic *sēliz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sil/

Noun

seil (plural seils)

1. Happiness, bliss, prosperity, good fortune

Adjective

seil (comparative mair seil, superlative maist seil)

1. Blessed, happy, holy, innocent

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈil/

Noun

seil (uncountable seils)

1. silence

Declension

declension of seil

	singular
nominative	seil
genitive	seila
dative	seile
accusative	seili
vocative 1	o seil!
predicative 2	seilu

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only