sele

Inherited from Middle English sel (“fortune, bliss; a unit 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.

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

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^[2] (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^[3] (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, […]

• haysel (“hay season”)
• wheatsel (“wheat season”)

• silly

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

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

sele (epicene, plural seles)

1. calm, tranquil

   Synonyms: calmu, tranquilu

• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “sele”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “sele”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

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

sele n (diminutive selátko)

1. piglet

• “sele”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sele”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “sele”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sele

1. locative singular of selo

   Synonym: selu

• Else
• lese

sele

1. knife

sele

1. cut (with a knife)

sele (uncountable)

1. (Northern or Late Middle English) alternative form of sel (“happiness”)

sele (plural seles)

1. alternative form of sel (“seal”)

sele (plural seles)

1. alternative form of sel (“pinniped”)

From Old Norse seli, sili.

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)

• buksesele
• seletøy

• “sele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• esel, esle, lees, lese, -else

• sållå (dialectal)

From Old Norse seli, sili.

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

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

   Synonym: bilbelte

• buksesele
• seletøy

• “sele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.le/

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

Strong i-stem:

• sæl

• Middle English: *sele
  • ⇒ Middle English: wunsele

• John R. Clark Hall (1916), “sele”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[4], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “sele”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[5], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Latin sella.

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

1. saddle (equipment used on a horse)

• enseler

• Middle French: selle
  • French: selle
• Norman: selle

From Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu.

sēle f

1. soul, life

Strong feminine o-stem

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

sele

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

Inherited from Proto-Tungusic *sele (“iron”). Cognate with Manchu ᠰᡝᠯᡝ (sele, “iron”).

• (Hui) IPA^(key): /ˈsələ̆/, (fast speech) [səl]

• Hyphenation: se‧le

selĕ

1. iron

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Do·Dɵrji (October 2014), “SELĚ”, in Ewengki Mɵnggɵl bilehu biteḡe / ᠡᠸᠡᠩᠬᠢ
  ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ
  ᠲᠣᠯᠢ
  ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ / 鄂蒙词典 [Ewenki–Mongolian Dictionary] (in Solon, Mongolian, and Chinese), Beijing: The Ethnic Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 1111–1112
• Do·Dɵrji (July 1998), “SEL”, in Ewengki Nihang Bilehu Biteḡ / 鄂汉词典 [Ewenki–Chinese Dictionary], Hailar: Inner Mongolia Culture Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 592–593

sele

1. other

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

sele f (plural seles)

1. (education, Spain) clipping of selectividad (“university admission exams”)

sele

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

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)

• betsel (“bridle”)
• fira (“lower (by letting out on a rope)”)
• fira sig ner (“rappel, abseil”)
• hissa
• tygel (“rein”)
• vinscha (“winch”)

• “sele”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “sele”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “sele”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish سله,^[1] from Arabic سَلَّة (salla),^[2] from Classical Syriac ܣܲܠܛܵܐ (sallətā, “basket”).

sele (definite accusative seleyi, plural seleler)

1. a wide wicker basket

From French selle.

sele (definite accusative seleyi, plural seleler)

1. saddle (of a bicycle)

sele (definite accusative seleyi, plural seleler)

1. alternative form of sere