selle

selle

See also: Selle and sellé

English

Noun

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.

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Asturian

Verb

selle

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

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Estonian

Pronoun

selle

1. genitive singular of see

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛl/

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• Homophones: celle, celles, scelle, scelles, scellent, sel, sellent, selles, sels

Noun

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)

Derived terms

• sellerie
• sellier
• seller

Further reading

• “selle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• elles

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛl.le/
• Rhymes: -ɛlle
• Hyphenation: sèl‧le

Noun

selle f

1. plural of sella

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Middle English

Adjective

selle

1. Alternative form of selly

Verb

selle

1. Alternative form of sellen

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French sele, from Latin sella.

Noun

selle f (plural selles)

1. saddle

Descendants

• French: selle

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French sele, from Latin sella.

Noun

selle f (plural selles)

1. (Jersey, cycling, horse tack) saddle

Derived terms

• selle à beurre f (“butter churn”)
• selle à tuthet f (“rammer churn”)
• selle bâtchiéthe f (“packsaddle”)
• seller (“to saddle”, verb)
• sell'lie f (“saddlery”)
• sellot m (“saddle”)
• sellyi m (“saddler”)
• tigue dé selle f (“seat post, saddle stem”)

 

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Latin cella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sel.le/, [ˈsɛl.lə]

Noun

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

1. alternative spelling of celle (“cell”)

Etymology 2

From Low German selle.

Noun

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

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

Etymology 3

From Old Norse selja.

Verb

selle (present tense seller)

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

References

• “selle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin cella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sel.le/, [ˈsɛl.lə]

Noun

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

1. alternative spelling of celle (“cell”)

References

• “selle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Pennsylvania German

Determiner

selle

1. inflection of sell:
   1. feminine nominative/accusative singular
   2. nominative/accusative/dative plural

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Spanish

Verb

selle

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

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West Frisian

Etymology

Shortening of sellemoanne.

Noun

selle c (plural [please provide])

1. (rare) February

   Synonyms: febrewaris, sellemoanne

Further reading

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