seleen
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seleen (uncountable)
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Etymology edit
A borrowing from German Selen or Swedish selen, or a shortening of selenium, as seleen is attested considerably later than selenium.
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Noun edit
seleen n (uncountable)
- selenium (chemical element) [from late 19th c.]
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Estonian edit
Noun edit
seleen (genitive seleeni, partitive seleeni)
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This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading edit
- “seleen”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
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Noun edit
seleen n (inflected like appelsien)
- (uncountable) selenium
- A part of selenium