-sel

From Dutch -sel, from Middle Dutch -sel, from Old Dutch -isli, from Proto-West Germanic *-islī.

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-sel

1. -age, -ion; Creates nouns from verbs indicating something which performs or has undergone an action or is the result of the action.

From Old Norse -sl, -sla, Old English -els. Related to -else.

-sel

1. Forms nouns from verbs with the sense of "the act of verbing", or a sense otherwise related to the act of verbing.

Nouns formed with -sel can be of either gender. In declensions, -e- is elided by most speakers (thus e.g. brændsel, brændslet, brændsler, brændslerne), which is prescribed by Dansk Sprognævn.^[1]

• “-sel” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch -sel, from Old Dutch -isli, from Proto-West Germanic *-islī. Cognate with German -sel, Old English -else, Swedish -else.

-sel n

1. -age, -ion; Creates nouns indicating something which performs or has undergone an action, or something which results from the action.

   Examples:

   • ‎toevoegen (“to add”) + ‎-sel → ‎toevoegsel (“addition, appendix”)
   • ‎bakken (“to bake”) + ‎-sel → ‎baksel (“bake-age, something that has been baked”)
   • ‎verschijnen (“to appear”) + ‎-sel → ‎verschijnsel (“appearance, something that appears”)

-sel

1. adessive singular of -ne

• -sal

From Proto-West Germanic *-islī.

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-sel (n)

1. Creates nouns from verbs, meaning something which is a fragment of the target of a verb, whether mechanically created or by intellectual activity

-sel

1. alternative form of -else

• IPA^(key): /səl/
• IPA^(key): /zəl/ (post-vocally)

-sel

1. alternative form of -else

From Old Norse -sl, -sla.

-sel m or f

1. used to form nouns from verbs.

• “-sel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse -sl, -sla.

-sel m

1. used to form nouns from verbs.

• “-sel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Middle Low German --sel, -else, from Old Saxon -isli, from Proto-West Germanic *-islī. Cognate with German -sel, Dutch -sel.

-sel n

1. Creates nouns indicating something which performs or has undergone an action, or something which results from the action.

   Examples:

   • ‎aufbieten (“to bite off”) + ‎-sel → ‎Aufbietsel (“bite”)
   • ‎aufhoakjen (“to rake off”) + ‎-sel → ‎Aufhoakjsel (“gleanings”)

-sel

1. making a noun from a verb

• els

Coined from the last three letters of the universel (“universal”) during the Turkish language reform. First used in evrensel, the equivalent of the same word (1934). Ultimately derived from Latin -alis.

• IPA^(key): /sæl/

-sel

1. Suffix turning a word into an adjective.

   ‎gök (“sky”) + ‎-sel → ‎göksel (“celestial”)

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “+sAl”, in Nişanyan Sözlük