seli

See also: сели, and SELI

Albanian

Etymology

Back-formation from selit (“to install new settlers in a place”).

Noun

seli f (plural seli)

1. headquarters, seat, base

Czech

Alternative forms

• sili (part)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛlɪ]

Participle

seli

1. animate masculine plural past active participle of sít

Ido

Noun

seli

1. plural of selo

Middle English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːliː/

Adjective

seli

1. sely

Descendants

• English: silly, sely
• Scots: seelie

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *silô.

Alternative forms

• sili

Noun

seli m

1. harness

Declension

  Declension of seli (weak an-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	seli	selinn	selar	selarnir
accusative	sela	selann	sela	selana
dative	sela	selanum	selum	selunum
genitive	sela	selans	sela	selanna

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: sele
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sele
• Danish: sele
• Swedish: sele

References

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

seli

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

Verb

seli

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

Swahili

Etymology

From English cell.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

seli (n class, plural seli)

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

Derived terms

• seli ya damu (“blood cell”)
• seli nyekundu ya damu (“red blood cell”)
• seli nyeupe ya damu (“white blood cell”)