See also: Dell, Dëll, and dell'

English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • enPR: dĕl, IPA(key): /dɛl/
    • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (small dale), from Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō (a hollow), related to *dalą (valley, dale).

Noun edit

dell (plural dells)

  1. A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.[1]
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Etymology 2 edit

Origin obscure. Originally thieves' cant. Compare Dutch del (trollop, floozie). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun edit

dell (plural dells)

  1. (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
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References edit

  1. ^ Brown, Lesley (1993) The New shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles, Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon, →ISBN

Albanian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Albanian *daislā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-slo (compare Latin fīlum, Lithuanian gýsla, Serbo-Croatian žȉla).[1]

Noun edit

dell m (plural dej, definite delli, definite plural dejtë)

  1. (anatomy) tendon
  2. sinew

Declension edit

References edit

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 87

Maltese edit

Root
d-l-l
2 terms

Etymology edit

From Arabic ظِلّ (ẓill).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

dell m (plural dellijiet or dliel)

  1. shade, shadow

Manx edit

Verb edit

dell (verbal noun dellal)

  1. to negotiate, deal, trade, traffic

Mutation edit

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dell ghell nell
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle English edit

Noun edit

dell

  1. Alternative form of delle

Vietnamese edit

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Etymology edit

From the company name Dell, which has the similar pronunciation.

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

dell

  1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of đéo

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Preposition edit

dell

  1. Alternative form of del
    • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 17:
      dell, for till;

References edit

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 17