different between sele vs sene

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 1

From Old French sene.

Alternative forms

• seene, senie

Noun

sene (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Senna.

Etymology 2

From Samoan sene, in turn from English cent.

Noun

sene (plural senes)

1. A unit of currency equivalent to a hundredth of a Samoan tala.

Anagrams

• Nees, eens, esne, seen, snee

Atong (India)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ni-s (“seven”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?ene/

Numeral

sene (Bengali script ????)

1. seven

Synonyms

• seben
• saat

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?n?/, [?se?n?]
• Homophone: scene

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sina, sin (“sinew”), from Proto-Germanic *senaw?, cognate with Swedish sena, English sinew, German Sehne, Dutch zenuw. The word possiblyt goes back to Proto-Indo-European *snéh?wr?, which is also the source of Latin nervus, Ancient Greek ?????? (neûron).

Noun

sene c (singular definite senen, plural indefinite sener)

1. sinew, tendon

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

sene

1. definite singular of sen
2. plural of sen

Friulian

Noun

sene f (plural senis)

1. scene

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin senem, accusative case form of senex, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.ne/
• Rhymes: -?ne
• Hyphenation: sè?ne

Noun

sene m (plural seni)

1. (obsolete, poetic) An old man
   • Synonyms: vecchio, vegliardo
   • Antonyms: giovane, giovanotto

Related terms

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?se.ne/, [?s??n?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?se.ne/, [?s??n?]

Noun

sene

1. ablative singular of senex

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

sene

1. definite singular of sen
2. plural of sen

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sina or sin

Alternative forms

• sen

Noun

sene f or m (definite singular sena or senen, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)

1. (anatomy) a tendon

Derived terms

• akillessene

Etymology 3

Noun

sene m (definite singular senen, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)

1. alternative form of scene

References

• “sene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sina, sin, from Proto-Germanic *senaw?, from Proto-Indo-European *sn?h?wr? (“sinew, tendon”). Cognates include English sinew.

Alternative forms

• sen
• (non-standard since 2012) sena

Noun

sene f (definite singular sena, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)

1. (anatomy) a tendon

Derived terms

• akillessene

Etymology 2

Noun

sene f or m (definite singular senen, indefinite plural senar, definite plural senane)

1. alternative form of scene

References

• “sene” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ense

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

sene

1. inflection of sena (“hawk”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural
2. vocative singular of sen? (“army”)

Samoan

Etymology

From English cent

Noun

sene

1. a hundredth of a Samoan tala
2. cent; penny

Descendants

• ? English: sene

See also

• t?l?

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• seneche, seneghe

Etymology

From Latin senem, accusative case form of senex, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sene/

Adjective

sene m or f (masculine and feminine plural senes)

1. old, aged

   Synonyms: betzu, begru

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sene]

Noun

sene n

1. locative singular of seno

Swedish

Adjective

sene

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of sen.

Anagrams

• enes, ense

Tauya

Noun

sene

1. stone

References

• Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (sana). Cognate with Uzbek sana, Turkmen sene.

Noun

sene (objective definite seneyi)

1. year

Synonyms

• y?l