seil

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈsetilːæ/, [ˈs̠e̞tʲiˑlʲː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈse.il/, [ˈʃe̞.iˑlʲ]
• Rhymes: -etilː, -e.il
• Hyphenation: seil
• Homophone: seille

seil

1. adessive plural of setä

From Old Dutch *segil, from Proto-West Germanic *segl, from Proto-Germanic *seglą.

seil n

1. sail

• sêel
• sēgel

• seilen

• Dutch: zeil
• Limburgish: zèèl

• “seil”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “seil (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

• segl (rare)

• IPA^(key): /sɛi̯l/, [sæɪ̯l]
• Homophone: segl (“seal”)

Inherited from Danish seil, older spelling of sejl, from Old Norse segl, from Proto-Germanic *seglą.

seil n (definite singular seilet, indefinite plural seil, definite plural seila or seilene)

1. (nautical) sail (piece of fabric attached to a boat’s mast)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

seil

1. imperative of seile

• “seil” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “seil” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Middle English sele (“happiness, good fortune, bliss”), from Old English sæl (“happiness, prosperity”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālī, from Proto-Germanic *sēliz.

• IPA^(key): /sil/

seil (plural seils)

1. Happiness, bliss, prosperity, good fortune

seil (comparative mair seil, superlative maist seil)

1. Blessed, happy, holy, innocent

• IPA^(key): /seˈil/

seil (genitive seila, uncountable)

1. silence