sel
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsɛl]
- Rhymes: -ɛl
Extremaduran
French
Etymology
From Middle French sel, from Old French sel, from Latin sāl, salem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.
Noun
sel m (plural sels)
- table salt, i.e. sodium chloride (NaCl)
- (chemistry) salt
- (in the plural) smelling salts
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “sel” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seːl/
- Homophone: sæl
Noun
sel m (definite singular selen, indefinite plural selar, definite plural selane)
- a seal (marine mammal)
Derived terms
Old English
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sel/
Noun
sel n
Related terms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seːl/
Adjective
sēl (comparative sēlla, superlative sēlest)
Related terms
- medsēlþ
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.
Old French
Etymology
From Latin sāl, salem.
Old Norse
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *salją, diminutive of either *salą or *saliz.
Declension
References
- sel in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) sal
Etymology
From Latin sāl, sālem, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls.
Scots
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *sъlъ, from the same root as sláti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsə́l/, /ˈsə́w/
- Tonal orthography: sə̏l, sə̏ł
Tok Pisin
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish سل (sel), a vulgar variant of سیل (seyl), from Arabic سَيْل (sayl).
References
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “sel”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2647
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “sel”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2735