seel
English
adj
Definitions
- (obsolete) Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English sel inherited from Old English *sǣle (good, happy, fortunate) inherited from Proto-Germanic *sēliz (happy, good, fortunate, kind, joy, luck) derived from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (dwelling, village, human settlement, spring, sneak, crawl, favor, move quickly, creep, of good mood, home).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*sel-
Gloss
dwelling, village, human settlement, spring, sneak, crawl, favor, move quickly, creep, of good mood, home
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
村
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- enseel English
- nonsilly English
- sely English
- sillily English
- silliness English
- silly English
- sillyfic English
- sillyhead English
- sillyish English
- sillykin English
- unseel English
- unsilly English
- Silvānus Latin
- consolo Latin
- consolor Latin
- exsul Latin
- insultus Latin
- salio Latin
- silva Latin
- solamen Latin
- solanum Latin
- sōlor Latin
- īnsultāre Latin
- ῡ̔́λη Ancient Greek
- *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European
- *sel- Proto-Indo-European
- *sleng- Proto-Indo-European
- *slewb- Proto-Indo-European
- *sl̥yétor Proto-Indo-European
- *sél-e-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *fraslindaną Proto-Germanic
- *saliz Proto-Germanic
- *salą Proto-Germanic
- *slippijaną Proto-Germanic
- *sulī Proto-Germanic
- *sēliz Proto-Germanic
- *unsēliz Proto-Germanic
- säll Swedish
- vesal Norwegian Nynorsk
- *sǣle Old English
- unsǣle Old English
- शाला Sanskrit
- seely Middle English
- sel Middle English
- sely Middle English
- unsele Middle English
- selr Old Norse
- sæla Old Norse
- sæll Old Norse
- vesall Old Norse
- babysæl Danish
- sæl Danish
- sælbestand Danish
- *selo Proto-Slavic
- sæll Icelandic
- seimeira Galician
- sala Latvian
- insult Middle French
- 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌴𐌻𐍃 Gothic
- 𐍃𐌴𐌻𐌴𐌹 Gothic
- 𐍃𐌴𐌻𐍃 Gothic
- *sālī gmw-pro
- sālig Old Saxon
- sæll Old Swedish