seel

Senso (Inglese)

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.

sinonimi

bedazzle

blind

hoodwink

lurch

Traduzioni

ciller

verblinden

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/siːl/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: sele

Ereditato da inglese antico: sǣl

Affine islandese: sæla

Affine olandese: zalig

Ereditato da inglese 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.