seal – English noun declension

Noun: seal

Singular	seal
Plural	seals

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like seal

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

From Middle English sel, from an inflectional form of Old English seolh, from Proto-West Germanic *selh, from Proto-Germanic *selhaz (compare Scots selch,selkie, North Frisian selich, Middle Dutch seel, zēle, Old High German selah, Danish sæl, Middle Low German sale, Icelandic selur), either from Proto-Indo-European *selk- (“to pull”) (compare dialectal English sullow (“plough”)) or from early Proto-Finnic *šülkeš (later *hülgeh, compare dialectal Finnish hylki, standard hylje, Estonian hüljes). See: Middle English Nouns 'sel', Old English Nouns 'seolh', Danish Nouns 'sæl', Icelandic Nouns 'selur', English Nouns 'sullow', Finnish Nouns 'hylki'.

Verbs referencing "seal"

French Nouns sceau, German Nouns Seehund, Icelandic Nouns selur, Old Norse Nouns selr.