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

• IPA^(key): /siːl/
• Homophone: seal
• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

sele (countable and uncountable, plural seles)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) Happiness, fortune.
2. (obsolete or dialectal, British) The right time or occasion for something, an opportune moment, season
3. 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”)

Related terms

• silly

Anagrams

• EELS, ELEs, Else, Lees, Slee, eels, else, l'ees, lees, lese, seel

Asturian

Adjective

sele (epicene, plural seles)

1. calm, tranquil

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ɛlɛ
• Hyphenation: se‧le

Etymology 1

Noun

sele n

1. piglet

Declension

Further reading

• sele in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• sele in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• sele in Internetová jazyková příručka

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

sele

1. locative singular of selo

   Synonym: selu

Anagrams

• Else
• lese

Fijian

Noun

sele

1. knife

Verb

sele

1. cut (with a knife)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cele, seile, seel, sel

Etymology

From Old English sǣl, from Proto-West Germanic *sālī, in turn from Proto-Germanic *sēliz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːl/, /sɛːl/

Noun

sele (plural seles)

1. happiness, prosperity, fortune
2. time, duration, season

Descendants

• English: sele, seel
• Scots: seil

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

sele

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From Old Norse seli, sili.

Noun

sele m (definite singular selen, indefinite plural seler, definite plural selene)

1. a harness (usually for horses, dogs and small children)
2. braces (UK) or suspenders (US) (used on trousers)

Derived terms

• buksesele
• seletøy

References

• “sele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• esel, esle, lees, lese, -else

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• sållå (dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Norse seli, sili.

Noun

sele m (definite singular selen, indefinite plural selar, definite plural selane)

1. a harness (usually for horses, dogs and small children)
2. braces (UK) or suspenders (US) (used on trousers)
3. (rare, colloquial) seat belt

   Synonym: bilbelte

Usage notes

Depending on dialect, this term can also mean different parts of horse harness.

Derived terms

• buksesele
• seletøy

References

• “sele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.le/

Noun

sele m (nominative plural selas)

1. 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)
2. tabernacle, gesele

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• sæl

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 and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sele”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin sella.

Noun

sele oblique singular, f (oblique plural seles, nominative singular sele, nominative plural seles)

1. saddle (equipment used on a horse)

Related terms

• enseler

Descendants

• Middle French: selle
  • French: selle
• Norman: selle

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu.

Noun

sēle f

1. soul, life

Inflection

Strong feminine o-stem

References

• Köbler, Gerhard, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch (4th edition 2014)

Portuguese

Verb

sele

1. inflection of selar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Sotho

Enumerative

sele

1. other

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsele/
• Rhymes: -ele
• Syllabification: se‧le

Verb

sele

1. inflection of ser:
   1. second-person singular imperative combined with le
   2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with le

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Arabic سَلَّة (salla), from Classical Syriac ܣܲܠܛܵܐ (sallətā, “basket”).

Noun

sele (definite accusative seleyi, plural seleler)

1. a wide wicker basket

Declension

Etymology 2

From French selle.

Noun

sele (definite accusative seleyi, plural seleler)

1. saddle (of a bicycle)

Declension

Etymology 3

Noun

sele (definite accusative seleyi, plural seleler)

1. Alternative form of sere

References

• “sele”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu