Noun: sele
Sample Sentences
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I found my friend honest Pritchard smoking his morning pipe at the front door, and after giving him the sele of the day, […] [1862, George Borrow, chapter XXXV, in Wild Wales Its People‚ Language and Scenery (Fiction), Read Central, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2013:]
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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, […] [1897, William Morris, chapter XIV, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), published 2005, page 245:]
Nouns inflected like sele
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *sēliz
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yos
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yós
5. Proto-Germanic *-jaz
6. Proto-West Germanic *-ī
7. Proto-West Germanic *sālī
8. Old English sǣl
9. Middle English sel
10. English sele
11. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
sel', Middle English Nouns '
sel'.