seli

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See also: сели and SELI

Albanian

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Etymology

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Back-formation from selit (to install new settlers in a place).[1]

Noun

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seli f (plural seli)

  1. headquarters, seat, base

References

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  1. ^ Topalli, Kolec (2015) “Nga vepra Fjalor etimologjik i gjuhës shqipe VII”, in Studime Filologjike, numbers 1–2

Czech

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Participle

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seli

  1. animate masculine plural past active participle of sít

Ido

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Noun

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seli

  1. plural of selo

Middle English

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Etymology

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From Old English sǣliġ. Cognate to Middle High German sælic.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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seli

  1. sely

Descendants

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  • English: silly, sely
  • Scots: seelie

Old Norse

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Germanic *silô.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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seli m

  1. harness
Declension
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Descendants
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References

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  • seli”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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seli

  1. dative singular of sel n
  2. dative singular of selr m

Verb

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seli

  1. third-person singular/third-person plural present subjunctive of selja

Swahili

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Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sw

Etymology

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From English cell.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

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seli (n class, plural seli)

  1. (biology) cell (basic unit of an organism)

Derived terms

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