sæl
See also: Appendix:Variations of "sal"
Danish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editsæl c (singular definite sælen, plural indefinite sæler)
Inflection
editDeclension of sæl
Synonyms
edit- sælhund c
Derived terms
editSee also
editEtymology 2
editNoun
editsæl n (singular definite sælet, plural indefinite sæl)
Descendants
edit- Norwegian Bokmål: sel
Icelandic
editPronunciation
editInterjection
editsæl
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editNorwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editsæl (neuter sælt, definite singular and plural sæle, comparative sælare, indefinite superlative sælast, definite superlative sælaste)
- happy, joyful
- satisfied
- 1866, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Storegut, page 32:
- „D’er godt at faa,“ so sagde tidt han Fa’r,
„ei unger Kone og ein gamal Gard.
D’er lett med desse tvo at liva vel;
og Skam faa den, som ei med det er sæl.“- “It’s good to have”, father often said,
“a young wife and an old farm.
With these two it is easy to live well;
and shame on him who is not satisfied with that.”
- “It’s good to have”, father often said,
- blessed
Related terms
editReferences
edit- “sæl” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *sal, from Proto-Germanic *salą. Cognate with Old High German sal, German Saal (“hall, large room”), Old Saxon sal, Dutch zaal. Compare sele, from a Germanic variant stem.
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
editsæl n (nominative plural salu)
Declension
editDeclension of sæl (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
edit- burgsæl (“city-hall, house”)
- folcsæl (“folk-hall”)
- hornsæl (“house with gables”)
- sælþ (“dwelling, house”)
- wīnsæl (“wine-hall”)
Related terms
editDescendants
editEtymology 2
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *sāli, from Proto-Germanic *sēliz.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsǣl m or f
- happiness, prosperity
- (proper) occasion, time; season, opportunity, condition, position
- Ðās wyrte man mæg niman on ǣlcne sǣl.
- This plant may be gathered at any time.
- (Lchdm. i. 112, 3.)
Declension
edit- Masculine
Declension of sǣl (strong a-stem)
- Feminine
Declension of sǣl (strong i-stem)
Derived terms
edit- sǣlan (“to take place, happen; to tie, bind, fetter, fasten: curb, restrain, confine”)
- sǣlig (“happy, prosperous”)
- sǣlige (“happily”)
- sǣliglic (“happy, blessed, fortunate”)
- sǣliglīce (“happily, blessedly, fortunately”)
- sǣlignes (“happiness”)
- sǣlþ, sȳlþ (“happiness, prosperity, blessing”)
- sǣlwang (“fertile plain”)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “sæl”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sæl”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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