selo

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *selo.

Noun

selo (plural selos or sela)

1. A village, in various Slavic regions.
   • 1985, American Geographical Society of New York, Soviet Geography, volume 26, page 194:

     Most Ukrainian and southern Russian selos are large; often they have several hundred households, and there are selos with more than a thousand.

Anagrams

• EOLs, ESOL, Elos, LEOs, Leos, Lose, OELs, Sole, elos, leos, lose, sloe, sole

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

selo

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ɛlo
• Hyphenation: se‧lo

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *selo.

Noun

selo n

1. village (used only for villages in East Slavic and South Slavic countries)

   Synonym: vesnice

   • 1874, M. Bogolyubov, “Žhář”, in Jaromír Hrubý, transl., Lumír‎, volume 2, page 288:

     Byl jsem a jsem dosud nejbohatším v sele Martynovce.

     I was and still am the richest one in the village of Martynovka.

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

selo

1. neuter singular past active participle of sít

   Synonym: silo

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Elso, lose, osel, osle

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sella.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: se‧lo

Noun

selo (accusative singular selon, plural seloj, accusative plural selojn)

1. saddle

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese seello, from Latin sigillum.

Noun

selo m (plural selos)

1. postage stamp
2. stamp, seal

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto selo, English saddle, French selle, German Sattel, Italian sella, Russian седло́ (sedló), Spanish silla., from Latin sella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.lo/

Noun

selo (plural seli)

1. saddle
   • 1910, Mondo, page 74:

     Eutyches quik kuris a la stablo, prenis mulo, selizis ol hastoze, sideskis en la selo, e kavalkis a Maria-klostro.

     Eutyches quickly ran to the stable, took a mule, hastily saddled it, sat down on the saddle and rode to the monastery of Mary.

   • 2015, Jean Martignon, “Ivain o la kavaliero kun leono”, in Kuriero Internaciona, number 1, page 11:

     Il imperas ke on pozez nova selo a lua kavalo.

     He demands that a new saddle is put on his horse.

Derived terms

• desselizar (“to unsaddle”)
• selizar (“to saddle”)

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

selo

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

From Dutch cello, shortening of violoncello, from Italian violoncello.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlo/
• Hyphenation: sè‧lo

Noun

sèlo (first-person possessive seloku, second-person possessive selomu, third-person possessive selonya)

1. (music) cello: a large stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings, tuned from lowest to highest C-G-D-A, and played with a bow, also possessing an endpin to support the instrument's weight.

Alternative forms

• sélo (Standard Malay)

Related terms

Further reading

• “selo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Romanization

selo

1. Nonstandard spelling of séla. Romanization of ꦱꦺꦭ

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

selo

Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese seello, from Latin sigillum, diminutive of signum. Doublet of sigilo. Cognate with Galician selo and Spanish sello.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: se‧lo

Noun

selo m (plural selos)

1. seal (e.g., on a document)
2. stamp

Derived terms

• selinho

Related terms

• selar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: se‧lo

Verb

selo

1. first-person singular present indicative of selar

Samoan

Numeral

selo

1. zero

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *selo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sělo/
• Hyphenation: se‧lo

Noun

sèlo n (Cyrillic spelling сѐло)

1. a village
   • 1916, “Tamo Daleko”, Đorđe Marinković (lyrics), Corfu:

     Tamo daleko, daleko od mora,
     Tamo je selo moje, tamo je Srbija.

     There, far away, far from the sea,
     There is the village of mine, there is Serbia.

2. the country, countryside
3. rural area

   Ljubav je na selu ― (TV broadcast "Farmer Wants a Wife" in Croatia)

Declension

Derived terms

• sèljāk
• sèoskī
• naselje

Further reading

• “selo” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Etymology 2

Reflects Proto-Slavic *sědlo, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”), with a sense development similar to Polish posiedzenie, Latin sessio, English sitting.

Alternative forms

• sijélo (Ijekavian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sěːlo/
• Hyphenation: se‧lo

Noun

sélo n (Cyrillic spelling се́ло)

1. social call, visit
2. rural evening social gathering, sometimes featuring traditional music and amusements

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈselo/
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: se‧lo

Verb

selo

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

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

selo

1. (transitive) to slice or cut right through

Conjugation

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh