selle

French

noun
Definitions
  • saddle for riding
  • commode chair containing a chamber pot
  • (metonymically) excrement human or animal

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French selle inherited from Old French sele (saddle) inherited from Latin sella (seat, saddle, chair) inherited from Proto-Italic *sedlā derived from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (sit).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*sed-

Gloss

sit

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