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

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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 sés, nominative singular sés, 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: sə̏l, sə̏ł

Noun

sèl m anim (genitive slà, nominative plural slì)

1. messenger

Declension

Declension of sel (masculine anim., hard)

	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