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selle

See also: Selle and sellé

English

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Noun

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selle (plural selles)

  1. Obsolete spelling of sell.
    • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Night 20)
      When he ended his verse he bade one of his pages saddle him his Nubian mare-mule with her padded selle.

Asturian

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Verb

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selle

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of sellar

Estonian

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Pronoun

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selle

  1. genitive singular of see

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French selle, from Old French sele, from Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

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selle f (plural selles)

  1. saddle (for riding)
    Synonym: (Louisiana) soutadaire
  2. commode (chair containing a chamber pot)
    Synonym: chaise percée
  3. (metonymically, chiefly in the plural) excrement (human or animal)

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Italian

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Noun

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selle f

  1. plural of sella

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

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selle

  1. Alternative form of selly

Etymology 2

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Verb

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selle

  1. Alternative form of sellen

Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French sele, from Latin sella.

Noun

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selle f (plural selles)

  1. saddle

Descendants

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  • French: selle

Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French sele, from Latin sella.

Noun

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selle f (plural selles)

  1. (Jersey, cycling, horse tack) saddle

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From Latin cella.

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  • IPA(key): /sel.le/, [ˈsɛl.lə]

Noun

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selle f or m (definite singular sella or sellen, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)

  1. alternative spelling of celle (“cell”)

Etymology 2

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From Low German selle.

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selle m (definite singular sellen, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)

  1. (historical) a miner
  2. (dialectal, colloquial) dude, guy

Etymology 3

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From Old Norse selja.

Verb

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selle (present tense seller)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by selge

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Latin cella.

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  • IPA(key): /sel.le/, [ˈsɛl.lə]

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selle f (definite singular sella, indefinite plural seller, definite plural sellene)

  1. alternative spelling of celle (“cell”)

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Old English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsel.le/, [ˈseɫ.ɫe]

Verb

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selle

  1. inflection of sellan:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. singular present subjunctive

Pennsylvania German

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Determiner

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selle

  1. feminine nominative/accusative singular of seller: that
  2. nominative/accusative/dative plural of seller: that, to that

Spanish

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Verb

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selle

  1. inflection of sellar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

West Frisian

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Etymology

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Shortening of sellemoanne.

Noun

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selle c (plural [please provide])

  1. (rare) February
    Synonyms: febrewaris, sellemoanne

Further reading

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  • “selle (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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