ziel
Meaning
- (feminine) soul (animate principle in non-materialist anthropologies)
- (feminine) sound post
Concepts
soul
spirit
mind
psyche
punt
bore
heart
fellow
figure
human
human being
individual
man
person
resident
single
Frequency
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/zil/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch siele, from Old Dutch *siola, contraction of an earlier *sēola (compare Old Saxon sēola), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō. The attested Old Dutch form sēla, with a different form of contraction, would have led to modern Dutch *zeel as in German Seele. Further cognate with Low German Seel, West Frisian siel, English soul.
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