seleen

Chemical element
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From Dutch seleen.

seleen (uncountable)

1. selenium

   Synonym: selenium

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A borrowing from German Selen or Swedish selen, or a shortening of selenium, as seleen is attested considerably later than selenium.

• IPA^(key): /səˈleːn/, /seːˈleːn/

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• Hyphenation: se‧leen
• Rhymes: -eːn

seleen n (uncountable)

1. selenium (chemical element) [from late 19th c.]

• selenium

• sleeën

seleen (genitive seleeni, partitive seleeni)

1. selenium

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• “seleen”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

• IPA^(key): [zɛ˧ˈleː˦n]

seleen n (inflected like appelsien)

1. (uncountable) selenium
2. A part of selenium