seelie
Scots
adj
Definitions
- blessed, holy
- fortunate, lucky, prosperous
- happy
- innocent
- helpless
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English sely inherited from Old English sǣliġ (blessed, fortunate, prosperous, happy) inherited from *sālīg (happy, blissful) suffix from Scots seil.
Origin
Scots
seil
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- sely English
- sælig Old English
- sǣliġ Old English
- unsælig Old English
- wansælig Old English
- seely Middle English
- sele 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
- seil Scots