selle (pluralselles)
- Obsolete spelling ofsell.
- 1885, Sir Richard Burton,The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Night 20)
- When he ended his verse he bade one of his pages saddle him his Nubian mare-mule with her paddedselle.
selle
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive ofsellar
selle
- genitivesingular ofsee
Inherited fromMiddle Frenchselle, fromOld Frenchsele, fromLatinsella, fromProto-Italic*sedlā, fromProto-Indo-European*sed-.
selle f (pluralselles)
- saddle(for riding)
- Synonym:(Louisiana)soutadaire
- commode(chair containing achamber pot)
- Synonym:chaise percée
- (metonymically, chiefly in theplural)excrement(human or animal)
selle f
- plural ofsella
selle
- Alternative form ofselly
selle
- Alternative form ofsellen
FromOld Frenchsele, fromLatinsella.
selle f (pluralselles)
- saddle
FromOld Frenchsele, fromLatinsella.
selle f (pluralselles)
- (Jersey, cycling, horse tack)saddle
FromLatincella.
selle f orm (definite singularsellaorsellen,indefinite pluralseller,definite pluralsellene)
- alternative spelling ofcelle(“cell”)
FromLow Germanselle.
selle m (definite singularsellen,indefinite pluralseller,definite pluralsellene)
- (historical) aminer
- (dialectal, colloquial)dude,guy
FromOld Norseselja.
selle (present tenseseller)
- form removed with thespelling reform of 1981;superseded byselge
FromLatincella.
selle f (definite singularsella,indefinite pluralseller,definite pluralsellene)
- alternative spelling ofcelle(“cell”)
selle
- inflection ofsellan:
- first-personsingularpresentindicative
- singularpresentsubjunctive
Pennsylvania German
[edit]selle
- femininenominative/accusativesingular ofseller:that
- nominative/accusative/dativeplural ofseller:that, to that
selle
- inflection ofsellar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
Shortening ofsellemoanne.
selle c (plural[please provide])
- (rare)February
- Synonyms:febrewaris,sellemoanne
- “selle (I)”, inWurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch),2011
