esel

From Dutch ezel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪə.səl/

esel (plural esels, diminutive eseltjie)

1. donkey, ass

   Synonym: donkie

esik +‎ -el

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛʃɛl]
• Hyphenation: esel

esel

1. second-person singular indicative present indefinite of esik

From Old Dutch esil, from Late Latin asellus.

ēsel m

1. donkey
2. fool, idiot

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: ezel
  • Afrikaans: esel
  • → English: easel
• Limburgish: aezel

• “esel”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “esel”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Borrowed from Middle Low German esel, from Old Saxon esil, from late Proto-Germanic *asiluz, from Latin asellus, from Late Latin asellus (“ass, donkey”).

esel n (definite singular eselet or eslet, indefinite plural esel or esler, definite plural esla or eslene)

1. a donkey or ass (a domestic or wild animal)

Borrowed from Middle Low German esel, from Old Saxon esil, from late Proto-Germanic *asiluz, from Latin asellus, from Late Latin asellus (“ass, donkey”).

esel n (definite singular eselet, indefinite plural esel, definite plural esla)

1. a donkey or ass