seel

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Sinónimos

bedazzle

blind

hoodwink

lurch

Traducciones

ciller

verblinden

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/siːl/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: sele

Heredado de inglés antiguo: sǣl

Cognado con islandés: sæla

Cognado con neerlandés: zalig

Heredado de inglés medio: 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.