esel

From Dutch ezel, from Middle Dutch ēsel, from Old Dutch esil, from Proto-West Germanic *asil, from Late Latin asellus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪə.səl/

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esel (plural esels, diminutive eseltjie)

1. donkey, ass

   Synonym: donkie

2. easel (frame used by artistic painters and draughtspeople)

• eselin

• → Sotho: esele
• → Xhosa: i-esile

From Proto-Celtic *asselī. Compare Breton ezel and Irish esel.

esel m (plural eseli)

1. limb
2. member

esik +‎ -el

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛʃɛl]
• Hyphenation: esel

esel

1. second-person singular indicative present indefinite of esik

From Old Dutch esil, from Late Latin asellus.

ēsel m

1. donkey
2. fool, idiot

• Dutch: ezel
  • Afrikaans: esel
    • → Sotho: esele
    • → Xhosa: i-esile
  • → English: easel
  • Negerhollands: esel
• Limburgish: aezel

• “esel”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “esel”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Borrowed from Middle Low German esel, from Old Saxon esil, from late Proto-West Germanic *asil, from Latin asellus.

esel n (definite singular eselet or eslet, indefinite plural esel or esler, definite plural esla or eslene)

1. a donkey or ass (a domestic or wild animal)

• -else, esle, lees, lese, sele

Borrowed from Middle Low German esel, from Old Saxon esil, from late Proto-West Germanic *asil, from Latin asellus.

esel n (definite singular eselet, indefinite plural esel, definite plural esla)

1. a donkey or ass