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English
Proper noun
Zell
- Obsolete name for the island of Yell, one of the Shetland islands.
1761, William Thompson, A Copy of Thompson's Justification, Founded on the Solid Principles of Truth and Public Virtue, London: [s.n.], page 8:I hope I ſhall not greatly offend in alſo bringing to remembrance at this time, the miſchief and horrors that the French ſpread at Bengal, and the piercing ſcenes of woe which they baſely perpetrated at Zell, and how aſtoniſhingly furious they raged there with brutal madneſs, being ſo amazingly wanton and inhuman in their obſcenery and cruelties, […]
- A town in Germany in the region of Lower Saxony.
- A town in Austria in the state of Salzburg.
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Old High German zella, from Latin cella. Cognate with German Zelle, English cell.
Pronunciation
Noun
Zell f (plural Zellen)
- cell