sel – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of sel

Noun: sel
Gender: n

Nominative

Singularsel
Pluralsalu

Genitive

Singularseles
Pluralsala

Dative

Singularsele
Pluralsalum

Accusative

Singularsel
Pluralsalu

Sample Sentences

  • Heorot, sincfāge sel (Heorot, (Thou) richly adorned hall!)

Nouns inflected like sel

sel,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sal, from Proto-Germanic *salą, from Indo-European. Cognate with Old High German sal, German Saal (“hall, large room”), Old Saxon sal, Dutch zaal. Compare sele, from a Germanic variant stem. See: German Nouns 'Saal', Dutch Nouns 'zaal'.

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