selden

From Old English seldan, from Proto-Germanic *seldana.

• seldyn, seelden, seldom, sielden, seeldyn, seilden, sieldome, syldyn, sylden, celdane, seldun, seldum, seldome

• IPA^(key): /ˈseːldən/, /ˈsɛldən/, /ˈseːldəm/, /ˈsɛldəm/

selden

1. not often, uncommonly, almost never.

• English: seldom
• Scots: seldin, seendil, seendle

• “sẹ̄lden(e (adv.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-03.

From Old English selden, from Proto-Germanic *seldanaz.

• seldyn, seelden, seldom, sielden, seeldyn, seldone

• IPA^(key): /ˈseːldən/, /ˈsɛldən/, /ˈseːldəm/, /ˈsɛldəm/

selden

1. uncommon, unusual, rare
2. not many or much; little in number.
3. (rare) strange, weird, odd

• seldomly

• English: seldom (archaic as an adjective)

• “sẹ̄lden (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-03.

From Proto-Germanic *seldanaz (“rare, strange”). Akin to Old Frisian selden, Old High German seltan, Old Norse sjaldan.

selden

1. rare, infrequent
2. few

• Middle English: selden, seldom, selde, seld
  • English: seld, seldom