sel

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

Cahuilla

Alternative forms

• sé'ish

Noun

sél

1. flower

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛl]
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

Verb

sel

1. masculine singular past participle of sít

Etymology 2

Noun

sel

1. genitive plural of selo

Anagrams

• Els
• les

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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

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• 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

• fleur de sel

Related terms

• saler

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• les, lès, lés

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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

Etymology

From Old Norse selr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːl/
• Homophone: sæl

Noun

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

1. a seal (marine mammal)

Derived terms

• grønlandssel
• ringsel

See also

• sjøløve
• kvalross

References

• “sel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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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
• seld, sæld
• selda
• seldguma
• sumorselde
• winterseld

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

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, salem.

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

• 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 main entry.

Noun

sel

1. accusative singular of selr

Verb

sel

1. second-person singular imperative of selja

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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

Noun

sel

1. self

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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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Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

From English sail.

Noun

sel

1. sail
2. canvas; tarpaulin

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).

Noun

sel

1. flood

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, 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, Vienna, column 2735