dell
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: dĕl, IPA(key): /dɛl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology 1
From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *dolъ (“below, down; valley, pit”), Welsh dôl (“meadow, dale”) and English dale.
Noun
dell (plural dells)
- A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow.[1]
- 1794, William Blake, The Little Girl Found, lines 49-50
- To this day they dwell
- In a lonely dell.
- 1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Gardens:
- In dells and dales, conceal'd from human sight.
- 1794, William Blake, The Little Girl Found, lines 49-50
Synonyms
- dale
- dingle
- vale
- valley
- See also Thesaurus:valley
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Origin obscure. Originally thieves' cant. Possibly from dell (valley). Compare Dutch del (“trollop, floozie”).
Noun
dell (plural dells)
- (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
- 1621 August 13 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Ben Jonson, “The Masque of the Gypsies”, in Q. Horatius Flaccus: His Art of Poetry. […], London: […] J[ohn] Okes, for John Benson […], published 1640, →OCLC:
- Sweet doxies and dells
- 1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11:
- A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Brown, Lesley (1993), The New shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles, Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon, →ISBN
- "mloyjja" in Green's Dictionary of Slang.
- The Century Dictionary (online edition)
- "dell, n.2" in Oxford English Dictionary (online edition).
Albanian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Albanian *daislā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-slo (compare Latin fīlum, Lithuanian gýsla, Serbo-Croatian žȉla).[1]
Noun
dell m (plural dej, definite delli, definite plural dejtë)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | dell | delli | dej | dejtë |
| accusative | dellin | |||
| dative | delli | dellit | dejve | dejve |
| ablative | dejsh | |||
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2000), A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 87
Further reading
- “dell”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][2], 1980
- Newmark, Leonard (1999), “dell”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary[3], Oxford: Oxford University Press
Cornish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Conjunction
dell (triggers soft mutation)
Derived terms
- dell grysav (“as I believe”)
- dell hevel (“as it seems, probably, seemingly”)
- dell y'm kyrri (“please, be so kind as to”)
- dell yw sopposys (“supposedly”)
- dell yw usys (“as usual, habitually, usually”)
- kepar dell (“just as”)
- kepar dell via (“as it were”)
- yn mar veur dell (“for as much as”)
Mutation
| radical | soft | aspirate | hard | mixed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dell | dhell | unchanged | tell | tell |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- “dell” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.
Maltese
| Root |
|---|
| d-l-l |
| 2 terms |
Etymology
Inherited from Arabic ظِلّ (ẓill).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɛll/
- Rhymes: -ɛll
Noun
dell m (plural dellijiet or dliel)
Manx
Verb
dell (verbal noun dellal)
Mutation
| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| dell | ghell | nell |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Middle English
Noun
dell
- alternative form of delle
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō (“a hollow”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dell/, [deɫ]
Noun
dell f or n or m[1]
Declension
- Feminine
Strong ō-stem:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | dell | della, delle |
| accusative | delle | della, delle |
| genitive | delle | della |
| dative | delle | dellum |
- Masculine/Neuter
Strong a-stem:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | dell | dell, dellas |
| accusative | dell | dell, dellas |
| genitive | delles | della |
| dative | delle | dellum |
Descendants
References
- ^ Kitson, Peter (1990), “On old English nouns of more than one gender”, in English Studies, volume 71, number 3, Taylor & Francis, , →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 187-188.
- ^ Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “dell”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Vietnamese
Etymology
From the company name Dell, which has the similar pronunciation.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛw˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛw˨˩˦]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛw˦˥]
- Phonetic spelling: đéo
Adverb
dell
Yola
Preposition
dell
- alternative form of del
- 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 17:
- dell, for till;
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 17