sele
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English sele (“happiness, good fortune, bliss; an occasion, period of time”), from Old English sǣl, sel
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sele (countable and uncountable, plural seles)
- (obsolete or dialectal) Happiness, fortune.
- (obsolete or dialectal, Britain) The right time or occasion for something, an opportune moment, season
- greeting, salutation
- 1862, George Borrow, chapter XXXV, in Wild Wales Its People‚ Language and Scenery[1] (Fiction), Read Central:
- I found my friend honest Pritchard smoking his morning pipe at the front door, and after giving him the sele of the day, […]
- 1897, William Morris, chapter XIV, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles[2] (Fantasy), published 2005, page 245:
- When the morning was come […] so she arose and thrust her grief back into her heart, and gave her fellow-farer the sele of the day, […]
Derived termsEdit
- haysel (“hay season”)
AnagramsEdit
AsturianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
sele n
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
- sele in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- sele in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
NounEdit
sele
AnagramsEdit
FijianEdit
NounEdit
sele
VerbEdit
sele
- cut (with a knife)
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old English sǣl, from Proto-West Germanic *sālī, in turn from Proto-Germanic *sēliz.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sele (plural seles)
DescendantsEdit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
sele m (definite singular selen, indefinite plural seler, definite plural selene)
- a harness (usually for horses, dogs and small children)
- braces (UK) or suspenders (US) (used on trousers)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “sele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
AnagramsEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
sele m (definite singular selen, indefinite plural selar, definite plural selane)
- a harness (usually for horses, dogs and small children)
- braces (UK) or suspenders (US) (used on trousers)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “sele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *sali, from Proto-Germanic *saliz, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-.
Cognate with Old Saxon seli, Old High German sali, Old Norse salr (Swedish sal), Lombardic sala; and with Old Church Slavonic село (selo), Russian село́ (seló). There was also a Germanic variant *saloz-, Old English sæl (“great hall, (large) house, castle”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sele m (nominative plural selas)
- great hall, house, dwelling, prison
- Winter ýþe beleác ísgebinde óþ ðæt óðer com geár in geardas swá nú gyt déþ ða ðe sele bewitiaþ wuldortorhtan weder. ― Winter locks the waves with bonds of ice until another year came to the dwellings of those who keep a constant watch for good weather. (Beowulf)
- tabernacle, gesele
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
- bānsele (“body (bone-house)”)
- bēagsel, bēagsele (“hall in which rings are distributed”)
- bēorsele (“beer-hall, banqueting hall”)
- burgsele (“castle-hall, house”)
- burnsele (“bath-house”)
- dēaþsele (“death-hall, hell”)
- drēorsele (“dreary hall”)
- dryhtsele (“princely hall”)
- eorþsele (“cave-dwelling”)
- gesele (“tabernacle”)
- goldsele (“hall in which gold is distributed”)
- gæstsele (“guest-hall”)
- grundsele (“abysmal dwelling”)
- gūþsele (“hall of warriors”)
- hēahsele (“high hall”)
- hornsele (“house with gables”)
- hringsele (“hall in which rings are bestowed”)
- hrōfsele (“roofed hall”)
- nīþsele (“hall of conflict”)
- seledrēam (“hall-joy, festivity”)
- seleful (“hall-goblet”)
- seleġesċēot, selesċot (“tabernaculum, tent, lodging-place, nest”) (German Geschoss)
- selegyst (“hall-guest”)
- selerǣdend (“hall ruler or possessor”)
- selerest (“bed in hall”)
- selesecg (“retainer”)
- seleþegn (“hall-thane, retainer, attendant”)
- seleweard (“hall-warden”)
- þacsele, þæcsele (“a building with a thatched roof”)
- willsele (“pleasant dwelling”)
- wyrmsele (“hall of serpents, hell”)
ReferencesEdit
- John R. Clark Hall (1916), “sele”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “sele”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
sele f (oblique plural seles, nominative singular sele, nominative plural seles)
- saddle (equipment used on a horse)
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Old FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu
NounEdit
sēle f
InflectionEdit
Strong feminine o-stem
ReferencesEdit
- Köbler, Gerhard, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch, (4. Auflage) 2014
PortugueseEdit
VerbEdit
sele
- first-person singular present subjunctive of selar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of selar
- first-person singular imperative of selar
- third-person singular imperative of selar
SothoEdit
EnumerativeEdit
sele
SpanishEdit
VerbEdit
sele
- Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ser, se and the pronoun le.
TurkishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Arabic سَلَّة (salla), from Classical Syriac ܣܰܐܠܳܐ (sallətā, “basket”).
NounEdit
sele (definite accusative seleyi, plural seleler)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | sele | |
Definite accusative | seleyi | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | sele | seleler |
Definite accusative | seleyi | seleleri |
Dative | seleye | selelere |
Locative | selede | selelerde |
Ablative | seleden | selelerden |
Genitive | selenin | selelerin |
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
sele (definite accusative seleyi, plural seleler)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection | ||
---|---|---|
Nominative | sele | |
Definite accusative | seleyi | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | sele | seleler |
Definite accusative | seleyi | seleleri |
Dative | seleye | selelere |
Locative | selede | selelerde |
Ablative | seleden | selelerden |
Genitive | selenin | selelerin |
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
sele (definite accusative seleyi, plural seleler)
- Alternative form of sere
ReferencesEdit
- sele in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu