selled
English edit
Verb edit
selled
- (nonstandard) simple past and past participle of sell
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- It was the day of warlocks and apparitions, now happily driven out by the zeal of the General Assembly. Witches pursued their wanchancy calling, bairns were spirited away, young lassies selled their souls to the Evil One, and the Accuser of the Brethren, in the shape of a black tyke, was seen about cottage doors in the gloaming.
Breton edit
Verb edit
selled
- Skolveurieg spelling of sellout, sellet
- impersonal imperfect indicative of sellout, sellet
References edit
- Ian Press (1986) A grammar of modern Breton, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 7