ceel

• cedel (dated)
• cedul (obsolete)

Contracted from cedel, from Middle Dutch cedele, from Medieval Latin cedula, from Latin schedula. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. from French or directly from Latin?

• IPA^(key): /seːl/

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• Hyphenation: ceel
• Rhymes: -eːl

ceel f (plural ceels, no diminutive)

1. certificate, deed, official document
2. (archaic) letter
3. list, series

• doodceel
• doopceel

ceel

1. (Late Middle English, Norfolk) alternative form of sel (“happiness”)

ceel

1. (Promptorium Parvulorum) alternative form of sel (“pinniped”)

Cognate with Maay eel, Garre eel, Jiiddu iil, Arbore eel, Daasanach eel, El Molo eel (“grave”), Oromo eela, Afar qeela, Yaaku e̱e̱l, Tsamai ʕelko. Compare also Proto-South Cushitic *hhaala (“well, waterhole”), whence Iraqw hhalaangw, Alagwa hhaala.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʕɛ̂ːl/, [ˈʡ͜ʢɛ̂ːl]

cèel m (plural ceelal, definite ceelka)

1. well (of water)

• Ceelberde
• Ceelbuur
• Ceeldheere
• Ceelwaaq

• “ceel”, in Qaamuuska Af-Soomaaliga, 2012