sel

Alternative forms

• sé'ish

Noun

sél

1. flower

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛl]
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Anagrams

• Els
• les

Verb

sel

1. to be

Etymology

From Middle French sel, from Old French sel, from Latin sāl, salem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛl/

• audio

  (file)

• Homophones: celle, celles, selle, sellent, selles, sels

Noun

sel m (plural sels)

1. table salt, i.e. sodium chloride (NaCl)
2. (chemistry) salt
3. (in the plural) smelling salts

Further reading

• “sel” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• les, lès, lés

Etymology

From Old French sel.

Noun

sel m (plural sels)

1. salt

Etymology

From Old Norse selr.

Noun

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

1. a seal (marine mammal)

See also

• sjøløve
• hvalross, kvalross

References

• “sel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From Old Norse selr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːl/
• Homophone: sæl

Noun

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

1. a seal (marine mammal)

See also

• sjøløve
• kvalross

References

• “sel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *salą, from Indo-European. Cognate with Old High German sal, German Saal (“hall, large room”), Old Saxon sal, Dutch zaal. Compare sele, from a Germanic variant stem.

Etymology 2

References

• 1916, John R. Clark, "A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students", sel et al.
• Bosworth, J. (2010, March 21). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online (T. N. Toller & Others, Eds.), sel.

Etymology

From Latin sāl, salem.

Noun

sel m (oblique plural seaus or seax or siaus or siax or sels, nominative singular seaus or seax or siaus or siax or sels, nominative plural sel)

1. salt

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) sal

Etymology

From Latin sāl, sālem, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls.

Noun

sel m

1. (Puter) salt

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sъlъ, from the same root as sláti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsə́l/, /ˈsə́w/
• Tonal orthography: sə̏l, sə̏ł

Noun

sèl m anim (genitive slà, nominative plural slì)

1. messenger

Etymology 1

From English sail.

Etymology 2

From English shell.

Etymology 3

From English cell.

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَيْل‎ (sayl).

Noun

sel

1. flood