Seele

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German sēle, from Old High German sēula, sēla, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō. Cognate with Low German Seel, Dutch ziel, English soul, Danish sjæl.

The type of bread is probably related to Allerseelen (“All Souls' Day”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzeːlə/ (prescriptive standard)
  • IPA(key): /ˈseːlɛ/ (Austria)
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  • Rhymes: -eːlə

Noun

Seele f (genitive Seele, plural Seelen, diminutive Seelchen n)

  1. soul
    • 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Vor dem Thor”, in Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One]‎; republished as Bayard Taylor, transl., 1870:
      Zwey Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust, / Die eine will sich von der andern trennen;
      Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, / And each withdraws from, and repels, its brother.
    • 1997, “Sie wollen uns erzählen”, in Es ist egal, aber, performed by Tocotronic:
      Sie wollen uns erzählen / Sie hätten eine Seele
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. mind, spirit
  3. (by extension) human being, soul
  4. (firearms) bore (of a gun)
  5. (anatomy) swim bladder
  6. (electrical engineering) core (of an electric cable)
  7. (dated or colloquial) inhabitant (of a municipality)
    das 500-Seelen-Dorf ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  8. (lutherie) sound post
    Synonym: Stimmstock
  9. (baking, Southern Germany) a type of narrow bread from Swabia

Declension

Declension of Seele
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Seele die Seelen
genitive einer der Seele der Seelen
dative einer der Seele den Seelen
accusative eine die Seele die Seelen

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Further reading

  • “Seele” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Seele” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “Seele” in Duden online
  • Seele on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de

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Pronunciation

Noun

Seele f

  1. plural of Seel

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sēla, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō. More at soul.

Noun

Seele f

  1. soul
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