seel

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English sel, sele, from Old English *sǣle (“good, fortunate, happy”) (attested in Old English unsǣle (“evil, wicked”)), from Proto-Germanic *sēliz (“good, happy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *sēl- (“to calm, quiet, be favourable”). Cognate with Danish sæl (“blissful”), Dutch zalig (“blissful”), Gothic 𐍃𐌴𐌻𐍃 (sēls, “good, kind, useful”), Icelandic sæll (“blissful”), Latin sōlor (“to comfort, console”), Swedish säll (“blissful”).

Adjective

seel (comparative more seel, superlative most seel)

  1. (obsolete) Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.

Etymology 2

From Middle English sele, sel, from Old English sǣl (“time, occasion, a fit time, season, opportunity, the definite time at which an event should take place, time as in bad or good times, circumstances, condition, position, happiness, joy, good fortune, good time, prosperity”), from Proto-Germanic *sēliz (“luck, joy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *sēl- (“to calm, quiet, be favourable”). Cognate with Icelandic sæla (“bliss”), Dutch zalig (“blissful, blessed”). More at silly.

Alternative forms

Noun

seel (plural seels)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
  2. (UK, dialectal) Opportunity; time; season.
    the seel of the day
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Middle English silen, from Old French siller, ciller (“to sew up the eyelids of, hoodwink, wink”), from cil (“eyelid”), from Latin cilium (“eyelid, eyelash”).

Verb

seel (third-person singular simple present seels, present participle seeling, simple past and past participle seeled)

  1. (falconry) To sew together the eyes of a young hawk.
  2. (by extension) To blind.
Translations
To blind — see blind

Etymology 4

Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *sīgan (“to drop”). Compare Low German sielen (“to lead off water”), French siller (“to run ahead, to make headway”), and English sile (transitive verb).

Verb

seel (third-person singular simple present seels, present participle seeling, simple past and past participle seeled)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete, of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm.
    • c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, Observations on the Navy and Sea Service:
      when a Ship seels or rowls in foul Weather

Noun

seel (plural seels)

  1. (obsolete) The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.
    • 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: ], →OCLC:
      The ship hulls as the billows flow; / And all aboard at ev'ry seel, / Like drunkards, on the hatches reel.

References

Anagrams

Ingrian

Spatial inflection of seel
→○ sublative sinne
○ superessive seel
○→ delative seelt

Etymology

Superessive of se (“it”). Cognates include Finnish siellä and Estonian seal.

Pronunciation

Adverb

seel

  1. (of location) there
    • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 29:
      A seel ono repo.
      And there is a fox.

References

  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 133
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 521
  • Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 49

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *segellum, from Latin sigillum.

Noun

seel oblique singular, m (oblique plural seeaus or seeax or seiaus or seiax or seels, nominative singular seeaus or seeax or seiaus or seiax or seels, nominative plural seel)

  1. seal (means of authentication for a letter, etc.)
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin *sitellus, masculinized counterpart to Latin sitella.

Noun

seel oblique singular, m (oblique plural seeaus or seeax or seiaus or seiax or seels, nominative singular seeaus or seeax or seiaus or seiax or seels, nominative plural seel)

  1. pail, bucket
Descendants

References

Votic

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈseːl/,
  • Rhymes: -eːl
  • Hyphenation: seel

Adverb

seel

  1. Alternative form of siäl

References

  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “seel”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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