Noun: sele
Gender: m
Sample Sentences
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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))
Nouns inflected like sele
hwistlere,
fuglere,
leornere,
folcstede,
grindere,
sundorwine,
morgenmete,
godspellere,
wyrtmete,
swiftlere,
gangere,
delfere,
predicere,
feohtere,
sangere,
horshierde,
feormere,
sunbryne,
heortgryre,
fiþelere, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-West Germanic *sali, from Proto-Germanic *saliz, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-.
2. 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”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
salr', Swedish Nouns '
sal', Old English Nouns '
sæl'.
Verbs referencing "sele"
German Nouns
Saal, Old Norse Nouns
salr, Gothic Nouns
𐍃𐌰𐌻𐍃.
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