dell

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See also: Dell, Dëll, and dell'

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dĕl, IPA(key): /dɛl/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō (“a hollow”), related to *dalą (“valley, dale”).

Noun

dell (plural dells)

  1. A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
valley — see valley

Etymology 2

Origin obscure. Originally thieves' cant. Compare Dutch del (“trollop, floozie”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

dell (plural dells)

  1. (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Brown, Lesley (1993) The New shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles, Oxford : Clarendon, →ISBN

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *daislā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-slo (compare Latin fīlum, Lithuanian gýsla, Serbo-Croatian žȉla).

Noun

dell m (plural dej, definite delli, definite plural dejtë)

  1. (anatomy) tendon
  2. sinew

Declension

Declension of dell
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative dell dej delli dejtë
accusative dellin
dative delli dejve dellit dejvet
ablative dejsh

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian‎, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 87

Maltese

Root
d-l-l
2 terms

Etymology

From Arabic ظِلّ (ẓill).

Pronunciation

Noun

dell m (plural dellijiet or dliel)

  1. shade, shadow

Manx

Verb

dell (verbal noun dellal)

  1. to negotiate, deal, trade, traffic

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dell ghell nell
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle English

Noun

dell

  1. Alternative form of delle

Vietnamese

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Etymology

From the company name Dell, which has the similar pronunciation.

Pronunciation

Adverb

dell

  1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of đéo

Yola

Preposition

dell

  1. Alternative form of del

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 17
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