sel

See also: Sel and -sel

§Cahuilla

§Alternative forms

• sé'ish

§Noun

sél

1. flower

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§Extremaduran

§Verb

sel

1. to be

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§French

§Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /sɛl/

§Etymology

From Latin sāl, salem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

§Noun

sel m (plural sels)

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

§Derived terms

• fleur de sel

§Anagrams

• les, lès, lés

§External links

• “sel” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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§Lojban

§Rafsi

sel

1. rafsi of se.

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§Middle French

§Noun

sel m (plural sels)

1. salt

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§Norwegian

§Etymology

From Old Norse selr.

§Noun

sel m

1. seal (animal)

§Inflection

    Inflection of sel

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	sel	selen	seler	selene
Nynorsk m	sel	selen	selar	selane

§See also

• sjøløve
• hvalross (Bokmål), kvalross

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§Old English

§Alternative forms

• (?): sæl
• (?): sele

§Etymology 1

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 m — lonely dwelling, hermitage
• bēagsel n, bēagsele m — hall in which rings are distributed
• carseld n — home of care
• eþelseld n — settlement
• geselda m — One of the same dwelling, a companion, comrade
• meduseld n — mead-hall
• seld, sæld n — hall, palace, residence.
• selda m — comrade, retainer
• seldguma m — retainer
• sumorselde f — summer-house
• winterseld n — winter-quarters

§Descendants

• English: sele, seel

§Etymology 2

§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.

§Related terms

• medsēlþ f — ill-fortune

§References

• 1916, John R. Clark, "A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students", sel et al.
• Bosworth, J. (2010, March 21). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online (T. N. Toller & Others, Eds.), sel.

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§Old French

§Etymology

From Latin sāl.

§Noun

sel 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

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§Romansch

§Alternative forms

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

§Etymology

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

§Noun

sel m

1. (Puter) salt

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§Slovene

§Etymology

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

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsə́l/, /ˈsə́w/
• Tonal orthography: sə̏l, sə̏ł

§Noun

sèl m anim (genitive slà, nominative plural slì)

1. messenger

§Declension

Declension of sel (masculine anim., hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	sel	sla	sli
accusative	sla	sla	sle
genitive	sla	slov	slov
dative	slu	sloma	slom
locative	slu	slih	slih
instrumental	slom	sloma	sli

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§Turkish

§Etymology

Borrowing from Arabic سيل (sayl).

§Noun

sel

1. flood