sel

• sé'ish

sél

1. flower

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛl]
• Rhymes: -ɛl

sel

1. masculine singular past participle of sít

sel

1. genitive plural of selo

• Els
• les

sel

1. to be

From Middle French sel, from Old French sel, from Latin sāl, salem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

• IPA^(key): /sɛl/

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• Homophones: celle, celles, selle, sellent, selles, sels

sel m (plural sels)

1. table salt, i.e. sodium chloride (NaCl)
2. (chemistry) salt
3. (in the plural) smelling salts

• fleur de sel

• saler

• “sel” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• les, lès, lés

From Old French sel.

sel m (plural sels)

1. salt

• French: sel

From Old Norse selr.

sel m (definite singular selen, indefinite plural seler, definite plural selene)

1. a seal (marine mammal)

• sjøløve
• hvalross, kvalross

• “sel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse selr.

• IPA^(key): /seːl/
• Homophone: sæl

sel m (definite singular selen, indefinite plural selar, definite plural selane)

1. a seal (marine mammal)

• grønlandssel
• ringsel

• sjøløve
• kvalross

• “sel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *salą, from Indo-European. Cognate with Old High German sal, German Saal (“hall, large room”), Old Saxon sal, Dutch zaal. Compare sele, from a Germanic variant stem.

• IPA^(key): /sel/

sel n

1. room, great hall, (large) house, castle

   Heorot, sincfāge sel ― Heorot, richly adorned hall.

• anseld
• bēagsel, bēagsele
• carseld
• eþelseld
• geselda
• meduseld
• seld, sæld
• selda
• seldguma
• sumorselde
• winterseld

• English: sele, seel

• IPA^(key): /seːl/

sēl (comparative sēlla, superlative sēlest)

1. good, noble

   Sōna ic wæs wyrpende and mē sēl wæs. ― Soon I was recovering and I was better.

• medsēlþ

• 1916, John R. Clark, "A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students", sel et al.
• Bosworth, J. (2010, March 21). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online (T. N. Toller & Others, Eds.), sel.

From Latin sāl, salem.

sel m (oblique plural seaus or seax or siaus or siax or sels, nominative singular seaus or seax or siaus or siax or sels, nominative plural sel)

1. salt

• Middle French: sel
  • French: sel
• Norman: sé, saïl
• Walloon: sé

From Proto-Germanic *salją, diminutive of either *salą or *saliz.

sel n

1. shed on a mountain pasture

• sel in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

See the etymology of the main entry.

sel

1. accusative singular of selr

sel

1. second-person singular imperative of selja

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) sal

From Latin sāl, sālem, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls.

sel m

1. (Puter) salt

sel

1. self

From Proto-Slavic *sъlъ, from the same root as sláti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsə́l/, /ˈsə́w/
• Tonal orthography: sə̏l, sə̏ł

sèl m anim (genitive slà, nominative plural slì)

1. messenger

From English sail.

sel

1. sail
2. canvas; tarpaulin

sel

1. to sail

From English shell.

sel

1. shell
2. shellfish

From English cell.

sel

1. cell (biology)

From Ottoman Turkish سل‎ (sel), a vulgar variant of سیل‎ (seyl), from Arabic سَيْل‎ (sayl).

sel

1. flood

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “sel”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2647
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “sel”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2735