ziel

Meaning

  1. (feminine) soul (animate principle in non-materialist anthropologies)
  2. (feminine) sound post

Frequency

A2
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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