seel

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (UK, dialectal) Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
2. (UK, dialectal) Opportunity; time; season.

Adj

Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.

Verb

1. To sew together the eyelids of a young hawk.
2. (broadly) To blind.

Verb

To roll on the waves in a storm.

Sinònims

bedazzle

blind

hoodwink

lurch

Traduccions

ciller

verblinden

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/siːl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: sele

Heretat de anglès antic: sǣl

Cognat amb islandès: sæla

Cognat amb neerlandès: zalig

Heretat de anglès mitjà: silen

In summary

From Middle English sele, sel, from Old English sǣl (“time, occasion, a fit time, season, opportunity, the definite time at which an event should take place, time as in bad or good times, circumstances, condition, position, happiness, joy, good fortune, good time, prosperity”), from Proto-Germanic *sēliz (“luck, joy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *sēl- (“to calm, quiet, be favourable”). Cognate with Icelandic sæla (“bliss”), Dutch zalig (“blissful, blessed”). More at silly.