sele

From Middle English sele (“happiness, good fortune, bliss; an occasion, period 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”)

• silly

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsele/, [ˈse.le]
• Hyphenation: se‧le

sele (epicene, plural seles)

1. calm, tranquil

   Synonyms: calmu, tranquilu

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

sele n

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)

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)

• cele, seile, seel, sel

From Old English sǣl, from Proto-West Germanic *sālī, in turn from Proto-Germanic *sēliz.

• IPA^(key): /seːl/, /sɛːl/

sele (plural seles)

1. happiness, prosperity, fortune
2. time, duration, season

• English: sele, seel
• Scots: seil

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 harness (usually for horses, dogs and small children)
2. braces (UK) or suspenders (US) (used on trousers)
3. (rare, colloquial) seat belt

   Synonym: bilbelte

Depending on dialect, this term can also mean different parts of horse harness.

• 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 and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sele”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd 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

sele

1. other

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

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)

• barnsele (“child harness”)
• bärsele (“baby carrier”)
• fallskärmssele (“parachute harness”)
• hundsele (“dog harness”)
• klättersele (“climbing harness”)
• sela (“to harness”)
• skidsele (“ski harness”)
• stridssele (“combat harness”)
• säkerhetssele (“safety harness”)

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

• sele in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sele in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sele in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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

Inflection
Nominative	sele
Definite accusative	seleyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sele	seleler
Definite accusative	seleyi	seleleri
Dative	seleye	selelere
Locative	selede	selelerde
Ablative	seleden	selelerden
Genitive	selenin	selelerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular selem selelerim 2nd singular selen selelerin 3rd singular selesi seleleri 1st plural selemiz selelerimiz 2nd plural seleniz seleleriniz 3rd plural seleleri seleleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular selemi selelerimi 2nd singular seleni selelerini 3rd singular selesini selelerini 1st plural selemizi selelerimizi 2nd plural selenizi selelerinizi 3rd plural selelerini selelerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular seleme selelerime 2nd singular selene selelerine 3rd singular selesine selelerine 1st plural selemize selelerimize 2nd plural selenize selelerinize 3rd plural selelerine selelerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular selemde selelerimde 2nd singular selende selelerinde 3rd singular selesinde selelerinde 1st plural selemizde selelerimizde 2nd plural selenizde selelerinizde 3rd plural selelerinde selelerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular selemden selelerimden 2nd singular selenden selelerinden 3rd singular selesinden selelerinden 1st plural selemizden selelerimizden 2nd plural selenizden selelerinizden 3rd plural selelerinden selelerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular selemin selelerimin 2nd singular selenin selelerinin 3rd singular selesinin selelerinin 1st plural selemizin selelerimizin 2nd plural selenizin selelerinizin 3rd plural selelerinin selelerinin

From French selle.

sele (definite accusative seleyi, plural seleler)

1. saddle (of a bicycle)

Inflection
Nominative	sele
Definite accusative	seleyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sele	seleler
Definite accusative	seleyi	seleleri
Dative	seleye	selelere
Locative	selede	selelerde
Ablative	seleden	selelerden
Genitive	selenin	selelerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular selem selelerim 2nd singular selen selelerin 3rd singular selesi seleleri 1st plural selemiz selelerimiz 2nd plural seleniz seleleriniz 3rd plural seleleri seleleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular selemi selelerimi 2nd singular seleni selelerini 3rd singular selesini selelerini 1st plural selemizi selelerimizi 2nd plural selenizi selelerinizi 3rd plural selelerini selelerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular seleme selelerime 2nd singular selene selelerine 3rd singular selesine selelerine 1st plural selemize selelerimize 2nd plural selenize selelerinize 3rd plural selelerine selelerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular selemde selelerimde 2nd singular selende selelerinde 3rd singular selesinde selelerinde 1st plural selemizde selelerimizde 2nd plural selenizde selelerinizde 3rd plural selelerinde selelerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular selemden selelerimden 2nd singular selenden selelerinden 3rd singular selesinden selelerinden 1st plural selemizden selelerimizden 2nd plural selenizden selelerinizden 3rd plural selelerinden selelerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular selemin selelerimin 2nd singular selenin selelerinin 3rd singular selesinin selelerinin 1st plural selemizin selelerimizin 2nd plural selenizin selelerinizin 3rd plural selelerinin selelerinin

sele (definite accusative seleyi, plural seleler)

1. Alternative form of sere