dell

See also: Dell, Dëll, and dell'

English

Etymology

From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-Germanic *daljō (“a hollow, abyss”), diminutive of Proto-Germanic *dalą (“valley, dale”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰol-, *dʰel- (“an arch, vaulting, curve, curvature, cavity”). Cognate with Dutch del (“a dell”), German Delle (“a hollow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛl/
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

dell (plural dells)

  1. A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.[1]
  2. (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
    • Ben Jonson
      Sweet doxies and dells.

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Translations

References

  1. ↑ Brown, Lesley (1993) The New shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles, Oxford [Eng.]: 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 (indefinite plural dej)

  1. (anatomy) tendon
  2. sinew

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ظِلّ‎ (ẓill).

Noun

dell m

  1. shade

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.

Westrobothnian

Preposition

dell

  1. Alternative form of dill
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