seul

Cognate with Breton seul and Welsh sawl.

seul

1. so many, so much
2. whoever

seul

1. adessive plural of siga

seul (Bressan, Valdôtain)

1. alternative form of sol (“alone”)

• seul in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• seul in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Inherited from Latin sōlus. Doublet of solo, which is a borrowing from Italian.

• IPA^(key): /sœl/

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• Homophones: seuls, seule, seules

seul (feminine seule, masculine plural seuls, feminine plural seules)

1. lonely
2. alone
   • 2018, Zaz, Nos vies:

     On ne sera jamais seul autour de nous ; on est une meute solide, on est une bande de loups.

     We are never alone around ourselves; we are a solid pack, we are a band of wolves.

3. only
4. single

• solitude

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

• élus, lues

From Old French sol, soul (“alone”), from Latin sōlus (“alone, sole, only”).

seul m

1. (Jersey) alone