секель

Russian

Alternative forms

  • се́киль (sékilʹ)dialectal
  • си́кель (síkelʹ)

Etymology

Can be related to verb Russian сечь (sečʹ, to cut) as "section, piece of body".

Cognate with Old Novgorodian сѣкꙑле (sěkyle) (document № 955 in the birch bark records of Novgorod); and Ukrainian си́кель (sýkelʹ), Ukrainian се́кель (sékelʹ), and Ukrainian се́кіль (sékilʹ), all of which are also archaic.

Noun

секе́ль • (sekélʹm inan (genitive секе́ля, nominative plural секе́ли, genitive plural секе́лей)

  1. (archaic) clitoris

Declension