sel

sel

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Selkup.

From Dutch cel, from Middle Dutch celle, from Latin cella.

• IPA^(key): /sɛl/

sel (plural selle)

1. cell (element of a table)
2. cell (basic unit of a living organism)
3. cell (small room, especially in a jail or prison)

• selmaat

• sé'ish

sél

1. flower

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛl]
• Rhymes: -ɛl

sel

1. masculine singular past active participle of sít

   Synonym: sil

sel

1. genitive plural of selo

• Els
• les

sel

1. adessive singular of see

   Synonym: sellel

sel

1. to be

• IPA^(key): /ˈsel/
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: sel

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ser. Compare Portuguese ser and Galician ser.

sel

1. to be

From Old Galician-Portuguese sair, from Latin salīre (“to leap”), from Proto-Indo-European *sl̥-ye-. Compare Galician saír and Spanish salir.

sel

1. to leave

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Inherited from Middle French sel, from Old French sel, from Latin salem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

• IPA^(key): /sɛl/

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• Homophones: celle, celles, selle, sellent, selles, sels

sel m (plural sels)

1. table salt, i.e. sodium chloride (NaCl)
2. (chemistry) salt
3. (in the plural) smelling salts
4. (figurative) spice

• saler

• “sel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• les, lès, lés

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛl]
• Hyphenation: sèl

Borrowed from Dutch cel (“cell”), from Middle Dutch celle, from Latin cella.

sèl (plural sel-sel)

1. cell
   1. a small room or compartment
      1. prison cell
      2. cloister cell
   2. (biology) basic unit of a living organism
   3. (chemistry, electricity, physics) the basic unit of a battery

Borrowed from English cel, clipping of celluloid.

sèl (plural sel-sel)

1. cel: a piece of celluloid on which has been drawn a frame of an animated film

• “sel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

sel

1. ice

sel

1. alternative form of sellen

Inherited from Old French sel.

sel m (plural sels)

1. salt

• French: sel

From Old Norse selr.

sel m (definite singular selen, indefinite plural seler, definite plural selene)

1. a seal (marine mammal)

• sjøløve
• hvalross, kvalross

• “sel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse selr.

• IPA^(key): /seːl/
• Homophone: sæl

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

1. (zoology) a seal, pinniped

• sjøløve
• kvalross

From Old Norse sel n, from Proto-Germanic *salją.

• IPA^(key): /seːl/
• Homophone: sæl

sel n (definite singular selet, indefinite plural sel, definite plural sela)

1. a seter cottage, with sleeping room(s), a kitchen and a dairy storage room

• innsel
• utsel

• sal m

From Middle Low German sel (“soul”), as does also ultimately sjel. From Old Saxon sēola, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō.

• IPA^(key): /seːl/
• Homophone: sæl

sel f

1. a soul; Used only in the expression mi sel (“truly!”).

From the verb selja (“to sell”).

sel n (definite singular selet, indefinite plural sel, definite plural sela)

1. (rare) a sale

   Synonym: sal n

sel

1. present tense of selja and selje
2. imperative of selje and selje

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /seːl/
• Homophone: sæl

sel

1. imperative of sela and sele

• “sel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Sel, esl, les, -sel, -sle

From Proto-West Germanic *sal, 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.

• IPA^(key): /sel/

sel n

1. alternative form of sæl (“room, great hall, castle”)

   Heorot, sincfāge sel ― Heorot, (Thou) richly adorned hall!

Strong a-stem:

• English: sele, seel

From Proto-Germanic *sāliz. See sǣliġ (“blessed, fortunate”).

• IPA^(key): /seːl/

sēl (comparative sēlla, superlative sēlest)

1. good, noble

   Sōna ic wæs wyrpende and mē sēl wæs. ― Soon I was recovering and I was better.

• medsēlþ

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) “sel”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[2], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sel”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[3], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Inherited from Latin salem. Cognate with Old Spanish sal f and Old Galician-Portuguese sal m.

sel oblique singular, 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

• Middle French: sel
  • French: sel
• Franc-Comtois: sâ
• Norman: sé, saïl
• Walloon: sé

• IPA^(key): [sʲel]

From Proto-Celtic *swelos (“a turn”).

sel m

1. a turn, a time, a while

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15^d9

  Non cogitare tola et accobra in betha, act cach la sel dún for imrádud Dé, in sel aile for precept. Ar seirc Dǽ do·gníam cechtarde.

  Not to think of the wishes and desires of the world, but it is for us to be at one time meditating on God, at another time preaching. For love of God we do each of the two.

• cach la sel
• merfal, merfall
  • Middle Irish: merball
    • Irish: mearbhall

• Middle Irish: sel
  • Irish: seal
  • Manx: shayll
  • Scottish Gaelic: seal (“while”)
  • ⇒ Middle Irish: dessel
    • Irish: deiseal
      • → English: deiseal, deisal, deasil, deisul, deshil
    • Scottish Gaelic: deiseil
  • ⇒ Middle Irish: túaithbel
    • Irish: tuathal
    • Scottish Gaelic: tuathal

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

·sel

1. third-person singular future conjunctive of slaidid

From Proto-Germanic *salją, diminutive of either *salą or *saliz.

sel n

1. shed on a mountain pasture

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “sel”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sel

1. indefinite accusative singular of selr (“seal”)

sel

1. inflection of selja (“to sell”):
   1. first-person singular active present indicative
   2. second-person singular active imperative

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سل (sel), a vulgar variant of سیل (seyl), from Arabic سَيْل (sayl).

sel n (plural seluri)

1. torrent
2. ditch

• sal (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader)

From Latin sāl, sālem, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls.

sel m

1. (Puter) salt

From Middle English self, silf, sulf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz.

sel

1. self

From Proto-Slavic *sъlъ, from the same root as sláti.

• IPA^(key): /sə́l/, /sə́ʋ/

sə̏l or sə̏ł m anim

1. messenger

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Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	sel
gen. sing.	sla
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	sel	sla	sli
genitive (rodȋlnik)	sla	slov	slov
dative (dajȃlnik)	slu	sloma	slom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	sla	sla	sle
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	slu	slih	slih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	slom	sloma	sli

From English sail.

sel

1. sail
2. canvas; tarpaulin

• haus sel

• → Rotokas: siel

sel

1. to sail

From English shell.

sel

1. shell
2. shellfish

From English cell.

sel

1. cell (biology)

From Ottoman Turkish سل (sel), a vulgar variant of سیل (seyl), from Arabic سَيْل (sayl).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsæl/
• Hyphenation: sel

sel (definite accusative seli, plural seller)

1. flood

• sel seli götürmek

• 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^[4], 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^[5], Vienna, column 2735

Borrowed from Arabic سَيْل (sayl).

sel (plural sellar)

1. downpour
2. flash flood

From Middle English sele, from Old English seolh, from Proto-West Germanic *selh.

• IPA^(key): /se̞l/

sel

1. seal (animal)

• Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990) “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review‎^[6], volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 160