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See also: Appendix:Variations of "sele"
English
Etymology
From Middle English sele (“happiness, good fortune, bliss; an occasion, period of time”), from Old English sǣl (“time, occasion, an opportune time, opportunity, happiness, prosperity, good times”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālī, from Proto-Germanic *sēliz. Related to silly.
Pronunciation
Noun
sele (countable and uncountable, plural seles)
- (obsolete or dialectal) Happiness, fortune.
- (obsolete or dialectal, British) The right time or occasion for something, an opportune moment, season
- Greeting, salutation.
- 1862, George Borrow, chapter XXXV, in Wild Wales Its People‚ Language and Scenery (Fiction), Read Central, archived from the original on 31 October 2013:
- I found my friend honest Pritchard smoking his morning pipe at the front door, and after giving him the sele of the day, […]
- 1897, William Morris, chapter XIV, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), published 2005, page 245:
- When the morning was come […] so she arose and thrust her grief back into her heart, and gave her fellow-farer the sele of the day, […]
Derived terms
- haysel (“hay season”)
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Pronunciation
Adjective
Czech
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
sele n (diminutive selátko)
Declension
Declension of sele (t-stem neuter)
Further reading
- “sele”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “sele”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “sele”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
sele
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Fijian
Noun
sele
Verb
sele
- cut (with a knife)
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English sǣl, from Proto-West Germanic *sālī, in turn from Proto-Germanic *sēliz.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
sele (plural seles)
Descendants
References
- “sē̆l(e, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
From Old English seol, seolh, from Proto-West Germanic *selh, in turn from Proto-Germanic *selhaz.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
sele (plural seles)
- seal (animal)
Descendants
References
- “sēl(e, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
sele m (definite singular selen, indefinite plural seler, definite plural selene)
- a harness (usually for horses, dogs and small children)
- braces (UK) or suspenders (US) (used on trousers)
Derived terms
References
- “sele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
sele m (definite singular selen, indefinite plural selar, definite plural selane)
- a harness (usually for horses, dogs and small children)
- braces (UK) or suspenders (US) (used on trousers)
- (rare, colloquial) seat belt
- Synonym: bilbelte
Usage notes
Depending on dialect, this term can also mean different parts of horse harness.
Derived terms
References
- “sele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Old English
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 село (selo), Russian село́ (seló). There was also a Germanic variant *saloz-, Old English sæl (“great hall, (large) house, castle”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sele m (nominative plural selas)
- great hall, house, dwelling, prison
- Winter ýþe beleác ísgebinde óþ ðæt óðer com geár in geardas swá nú gyt déþ ða ðe sele bewitiaþ wuldortorhtan weder. ― Winter locks the waves with bonds of ice until another year came to the dwellings of those who keep a constant watch for good weather. (Beowulf)
- tabernacle, gesele
Declension
Strong i-stem:
Derived terms
- bānsele (“body (bone-house)”)
- bēagsel, bēagsele (“hall in which rings are distributed”)
- bēorsele (“beer-hall, banqueting hall”)
- burgsele (“castle-hall, house”)
- burnsele (“bath-house”)
- dēaþsele (“death-hall, hell”)
- drēorsele (“dreary hall”)
- dryhtsele (“princely hall”)
- eorþsele (“cave-dwelling”)
- gæstsele (“guest-hall”)
- gesele (“tabernacle”)
- goldsele (“hall in which gold is distributed”)
- grundsele (“abysmal dwelling”)
- gūþsele (“hall of warriors”)
- hēahsele (“high hall”)
- hornsele (“house with gables”)
- hringsele (“hall in which rings are bestowed”)
- hrōfsele (“roofed hall”)
- nīþsele (“hall of conflict”)
- seledrēam (“hall-joy, festivity”)
- seleful (“hall-goblet”)
- seleġesċēot, selesċot (“tabernaculum, tent, lodging-place, nest”) (German Geschoss)
- selegyst (“hall-guest”)
- selerǣdend (“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”)
Related terms
Descendants
- Middle English: *sele
- ⇒ Middle English: wunsele
References
- John R. Clark Hall (1916), “sele”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
- Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “sele”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Old French
Etymology
Noun
sele oblique singular, f (oblique plural seles, nominative singular sele, nominative plural seles)
- saddle (equipment used on a horse)
Related terms
Descendants
Old Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu.
Noun
sēle f
Inflection
Strong feminine o-stem
References
- Köbler, Gerhard, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch (4th edition 2014)
Portuguese
Verb
sele
- inflection of selar:
Sotho
Enumerative
sele
Spanish
Pronunciation
Verb
sele
- inflection of ser:
- second-person singular imperative combined with le
- second-person singular voseo imperative combined with le
Swedish
Noun
sele c
- a harness (for a horse or other draft animal)
- Synonym: seldon
- a harness (arrangement with straps or the like to provide for attachment or to carry something or the like)
Declension
Derived terms
- barnsele (“child harness”)
- bärsele (“baby carrier”)
- fallskärmssele (“parachute harness”)
- hundsele (“dog harness”)
- klättersele (“climbing harness”)
- sela (“to harness”)
- skidsele (“ski harness”)
- stridssele (“combat harness”)
- säkerhetssele (“safety harness”)
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References
Turkish
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