seli

Back-formation from selit (“to install new settlers in a place”).^[1]

seli f (plural seli)

1. headquarters, seat, base

• sili (part)

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛlɪ]

seli

1. animate masculine plural past active participle of sít

seli

1. plural of selo

From Old English sǣliġ. Cognate to Middle High German sælic.

• IPA^(key): /seːliː/

seli

1. sely

• English: silly, sely
• Scots: seelie

From Proto-Germanic *silô.

• sili

seli m

1. harness

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

seli

1. dative singular of sel n
2. dative singular of selr m

seli

1. third-person singular/third-person plural present subjunctive of selja

From English cell.

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seli class IX (plural seli class X)

1. (biology) cell (basic unit of an organism)

• seli ya damu (“blood cell”)
• seli nyekundu ya damu (“red blood cell”)
• seli nyeupe ya damu (“white blood cell”)