seel
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English sel, from Old English *sǣle (“good, fortunate, happy”) (attested in Old English unsǣle (“evil, wicked”)), from Proto-Germanic *sēliz (“good, happy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *sēl- (“to calm, quiet, be favourable”). Cognate with Danish sæl (“blissful”), Swedish säll (“blissful”), Icelandic sæll (“blissful”), Gothic 𐍃𐌴𐌻𐍃 (sēls, “good, kind, useful”), Latin sōlor (“comfort, console”).
Adjective
Etymology 2
From Middle English sele, sel, from Old English sǣl (“time, occasion, a fit time, season, opportunity, the definite time at which an event should take place, time as in bad or good times, circumstances, condition, position, happiness, joy, good fortune, good time, prosperity”), from Proto-Germanic *sēliz (“luck, joy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *sēl- (“to calm, quiet, be favourable”). Cognate with Icelandic sæla (“bliss”), Dutch zalig (“blissful, blessed”). More at silly.
Alternative forms
Noun
seel (plural seels)
Derived terms
- barley-seel
- hay-seel
Etymology 3
From Old French siller, ciller (“to sew up the eyelids of, hoodwink, wink”), from cil (“eyelid”), from Latin cilium (“eyelid, eyelash”).
Verb
seel (third-person singular simple present seels, present participle seeling, simple past and past participle seeled)
Etymology 4
Compare Low German sielen (“to lead off water”), French siller (“to run ahead, to make headway”), and English sile (transitive verb).
Verb
seel (third-person singular simple present seels, present participle seeling, simple past and past participle seeled)
Noun
seel (plural seels)
- The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sandys to this entry?)
Ingrian
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *segellum, from Latin sigillum.
Noun
seel m (oblique plural seeaus or seeax or seiaus or seiax or seels, nominative singular seeaus or seeax or seiaus or seiax or seels, nominative plural seel)
- seal (means of authentication for a letter, etc.)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (seel, supplement)
- seel on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub