Old English · noun

sele

Part of speech: noun, masculine
Declension: strong i-stem
IPA: /ˈse.le/
Syllables: ˈse · le (2 syllables)
Modern English: gesele tabernacle

Meaning

great hall, house, dwelling, prison

Winter ýþe beleác ísgebinde óþ ðæt óðer com geár in geardas swá nú gyt déþ ða ðe sele bewitiaþ wuldortorhtan weder.

Winter locks the waves with bonds of ice until another year came to the dwellings of those who keep a constant watch for good weather. (Beowulf)
tabernacle, gesele

Declension

Declension of sele
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sele	selas
Accusative	sele	selas
Genitive	seles	sela
Dative	sele	selum

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sali, from Proto-Germanic *saliz, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-. Cognate with Old Saxon seli, Old High German sali, Old Norse salr (Swedish sal), Lombardic sala; and with Old Church Slavonic село (selo), Russian село́ (seló). There was also a Germanic variant *saloz-, Old English sæl (“great hall, (large) house, castle”).

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