sele

Etymology

From Middle English sele (“happiness, good fortune, bliss; an occasion, period of time”), from Old English sǣl (“time, occasion, an opportune time, opportunity, happiness, prosperity, good times”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālī, from Proto-Germanic *sēliz. Related to silly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siːl/
• Homophone: seal
• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

sele (countable and uncountable, plural seles)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) Happiness, fortune.
2. (obsolete or dialectal, British) The right time or occasion for something, an opportune moment, season
3. Greeting, salutation.
   • 1862, George Borrow, chapter XXXV, in Wild Wales Its People‚ Language and Scenery‎ (Fiction), Read Central, archived from the original on 31 October 2013:

     I found my friend honest Pritchard smoking his morning pipe at the front door, and after giving him the sele of the day, […]

   • 1897, William Morris, chapter XIV, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles‎ (Fantasy), published 2005, page 245:

     When the morning was come […] so she arose and thrust her grief back into her heart, and gave her fellow-farer the sele of the day, […]

Anagrams

• slee, Slee, lese, lees, EELS, Lees, eels, Else, seel, else, ELEs, l'ees

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsele/ [ˈse.le]
• Hyphenation: se‧le

Adjective

sele (epicene, plural seles)

1. calm, tranquil

   Synonyms: calmu, tranquilu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛlɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛlɛ
• Hyphenation: se‧le

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Anagrams

• Else
• lese

Noun

sele

1. knife

Verb

sele

1. cut (with a knife)

Alternative forms

• cele, seile, seel, sel

Etymology

From Old English sǣl, from Proto-West Germanic *sālī, in turn from Proto-Germanic *sēliz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːl/, /sɛːl/

Noun

sele (plural seles)

1. happiness, prosperity, fortune
2. time, duration, season

Etymology

From Old Norse seli, sili.

Noun

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

1. a harness (usually for horses, dogs and small children)
2. braces (UK) or suspenders (US) (used on trousers)

References

• “sele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• esel, esle, lees, lese, -else

Alternative forms

• sållå (dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Norse seli, sili.

Noun

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

1. a harness (usually for horses, dogs and small children)
2. braces (UK) or suspenders (US) (used on trousers)
3. (rare, colloquial) seat belt

   Synonym: bilbelte

References

• “sele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sali, from Proto-Germanic *saliz, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-.

Cognate with Old Saxon seli, Old High German sali, Old Norse salr (Swedish sal), Lombardic sala; and with Old Church Slavonic село (selo), Russian село́ (seló). There was also a Germanic variant *saloz-, Old English sæl (“great hall, (large) house, castle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.le/

Noun

sele m (nominative plural selas)

1. great hall, house, dwelling, prison
   • Winter ýþe beleác ísgebinde óþ ðæt óðer com geár in geardas swá nú gyt déþ ða ðe sele bewitiaþ wuldortorhtan weder. ― Winter locks the waves with bonds of ice until another year came to the dwellings of those who keep a constant watch for good weather. (Beowulf)
2. tabernacle, gesele

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) “sele”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sele”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Etymology

From Latin sella.

Noun

sele oblique singular, f (oblique plural seles, nominative singular sele, nominative plural seles)

1. saddle (equipment used on a horse)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu.

Noun

sēle f

1. soul, life

References

• Köbler, Gerhard, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch (4th edition 2014)

Verb

sele

1. inflection of selar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Enumerative

sele

1. other

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsele/ [ˈse.le]
• Rhymes: -ele
• Syllabification: se‧le

Verb

sele

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

Noun

sele c

2. a harness (for a horse or other draft animal)

   Synonym: seldon

4. a harness (arrangement with straps or the like to provide for attachment or to carry something or the like)

References

• sele in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sele in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sele in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)