sely
English
adj
Definitions
- (archaic) spiritually favored, blessed, holy, virtuous, righteous
- (archaic) worthy, noble, fine, excellent
- (archaic) fortunate, lucky, prosperous
- (archaic) happy, pleasant
- (archaic) wealthy (figurative)
- (archaic) innocent, harmless; good
- (archaic) simple, guileless; foolish, gullible; doting; ignorant
- (archaic) weak, helpless, defenseless, hapless
- (archaic) wretched, unfortunate, miserable, pitiable
- (archaic) humble, lowly, poor
- (archaic) worthless, trifling, insignificant
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English sely inherited from Old English sǣliġ (blessed, fortunate, prosperous, happy) inherited from *sālīg (happy, blissful) suffix from English seel (happiness, bliss).
Origin
English
seel
Gloss
happiness, bliss
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
幸, 嬉
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- enseel English
- seel English
- silly English
- unseel English
- sælig Old English
- sǣliġ Old English
- unsælig Old English
- wansælig Old English
- seely Middle English
- sel Middle English
- seli Middle English
- sely Middle English
- unsely Middle English
- salig Old High German
- sālig Old High German
- sālīg Old High German
- *sālīg gmw-pro
- *sālig Old Dutch
- sä̂lich Middle Low German
- sālig Old Saxon
- seelie Scots