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English

Etymology

From Middle English sele (“happiness, good fortune, bliss; an occasion, period of time”), from Old English s?l, sel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?l/
• Homophone: seal
• Rhymes: -i?l

Noun

sele (countable and uncountable, plural seles)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) Happiness, fortune.
2. (obsolete or dialectal) The right time or occasion for something, an opportune moment.
3. greeting, salutation

Anagrams

• EELS, ELEs, Else, Lees, Slee, eels, else, l'ees, lees, lese, seel

Asturian

Adjective

sele (epicene, plural seles)

1. calm, tranquil

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?
• Hyphenation: se?le

Etymology 1

Noun

sele n

1. piglet

Declension

Further reading

• sele in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• sele in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

sele

1. locative singular of selo

Synonyms

• selu

Anagrams

• Else
• lese

Fijian

Noun

sele

1. knife

Verb

sele

1. cut (with a knife)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cele, seile, seel, sel

Etymology

From Old English s?l, from Proto-West Germanic *s?l?, in turn from Proto-Germanic *s?liz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?l/, /s??l/

Noun

sele (plural seles)

1. happiness, prosperity, fortune
2. time, duration, season

Descendants

• English: sele, seel
• Scots: seil

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse seli, sili

Noun

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

1. a harness (usually for horses, dogs and small children)
2. braces (UK) or suspenders (US) (used on trousers)

Derived terms

• buksesele
• seletøy

References

• “sele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse seli, sili

Noun

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

1. a harness (usually for horses, dogs and small children)
2. braces (UK) or suspenders (US) (used on trousers)

Derived terms

• buksesele
• seletøy

References

• “sele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

• sæl
• sel

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sali, from Proto-Germanic *saliz, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-.

Cognate with Old Saxon seli, Old High German sali, Old Norse salr (Swedish sal), Lombardic sala; and with Old Church Slavonic ???? (selo), Russian ????? (seló). There was also a Germanic variant *saloz-, Old English sæl (“great hall, (large) house, castle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se.le/

Noun

sele m (nominative plural selas)

1. great hall, house, dwelling, prison

2. tabernacle, gesele

Declension

Derived terms

• b?nsele (“body (bone-house)”)
• b?agsel, b?agsele (“hall in which rings are distributed”)
• b?orsele (“beer-hall, banqueting hall”)
• burgsele (“castle-hall, house”)
• burnsele (“bath-house”)
• d?aþsele (“death-hall, hell”)
• dr?orsele (“dreary hall”)
• dryhtsele (“princely hall”)
• eorþsele (“cave-dwelling”)
• gesele (“tabernacle”)
• goldsele (“hall in which gold is distributed”)
• gæstsele (“guest-hall”)
• grundsele (“abysmal dwelling”)
• g?þsele (“hall of warriors”)
• h?ahsele (“high hall”)
• hornsele (“house with gables”)
• hringsele (“hall in which rings are bestowed”)
• hr?fsele (“roofed hall”)
• n?þsele (“hall of conflict”)
• seledr?am (“hall-joy, festivity”)
• seleful (“hall-goblet”)
• sele?es??ot, seles?ot (“tabernaculum, tent, lodging-place, nest”) (German Geschoss)
• selegyst (“hall-guest”)
• seler?dend (“hall ruler or possessor”)
• selerest (“bed in hall”)
• selesecg (“retainer”)
• seleþegn (“hall-thane, retainer, attendant”)
• seleweard (“hall-warden”)
• þacsele, þæcsele (“a building with a thatched roof”)
• willsele (“pleasant dwelling”)
• wyrmsele (“hall of serpents, hell”)

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “sele”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “sele”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin sella.

Noun

sele f (oblique plural seles, nominative singular sele, nominative plural seles)

1. saddle (equipment used on a horse)

Related terms

• enseler

Descendants

• Middle French: selle
  • French: selle
• Norman: selle

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu

Noun

s?le f

1. soul, life

Inflection

Strong feminine o-stem

References

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch, (4. Auflage) 2014

Portuguese

Verb

sele

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of selar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of selar
3. first-person singular imperative of selar
4. third-person singular imperative of selar

Sotho

Enumerative

sele

1. other

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Arabic ??????? (salla), from Classical Syriac ??????? (sall?t?, “basket”).

Noun

sele (definite accusative seleyi, plural seleler)

1. a wide wicker basket

Declension

Etymology 2

From French selle.

Noun

sele (definite accusative seleyi, plural seleler)

1. saddle (of a bicycle)

Declension

Etymology 3

Noun

sele (definite accusative seleyi, plural seleler)

1. Alternative form of sere

References

• sele in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

English

Etymology

From Latin saeculum. Compare French siècle. See secular.

Noun

secle (plural secles)

1. (obsolete) A century.
   • 1644, Henry Hammond, Practical Catechism

     Of a man's age, part he lives in his father's life-time, and part after his son's birth; and thereupon it is wont to be said that three generations make one secle, or hundred years in the genealogies.