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/

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)‎, 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

• saler

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

• les, lès, lés

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

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

sèl (first-person possessive selku, second-person possessive selmu, third-person possessive selnya)

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

• “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!

• 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, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sel”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd 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
• Norman: sé, saïl
• Walloon: sé

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

sel n

1. shed on a mountain pasture

• “sel”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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

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, 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, Vienna, column 2735

From Arabic سَيْل (sayl).

sel (plural sellar)

1. downpour
2. flash flood