sèlye

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

seye (Beaujolais) che̱lye, che̱le, se̱ye (Bressan) sillie (Old Fribourgeois) seùyi (Piemontais) cële (Valdôtain)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin situla.

Noun

sèlye f (plural sèlyes) (ORB, broad)

1. bucket

References

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

Further information

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 966: “secchio di legno” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 1208: “seau” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sĭtŭla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 11: S–Si, page 665