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Albanian
Etymology
Back-formation from selit (“to install new settlers in a place”).[1]
Noun
seli f (plural seli)
- headquarters, seat, base
References
- ^ Topalli, Kolec (2015) “Nga vepra Fjalor etimologjik i gjuhës shqipe VII”, in Studime Filologjike, numbers 1–2
Czech
Pronunciation
Participle
seli
- animate masculine plural past active participle of sít
Ido
Noun
seli
- plural of selo
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English sǣliġ. Cognate to Middle High German sælic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
seli
- sely
Descendants
Old Norse
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *silô.
Noun
seli m
- harness
Declension
Declension of seli (weak an-stem)
Descendants
References
- “seli”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
seli
- dative singular of sel n
- dative singular of selr m
Verb
seli
- third-person singular/third-person plural present subjunctive of selja
Swahili
Etymology
From English cell.
Pronunciation
Noun
seli (n class, plural seli)
- (biology) cell (basic unit of an organism)
Derived terms