sel

See also: Sel, sèl, sêl, šel, -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/
• Homophones: celle, celles, selle, sellent, selles, sels

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 Bokmål

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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

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

From Old Norse selr.

Noun

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

1. a seal (marine mammal)

See also

• sjøløve
• kvalross

References

• “sel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old English

Alternative forms

• (?): sæl
• (?): sele

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 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

Descendants

• French: sel

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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 سَيْل ‎(sayl).

Noun

sel

1. flood