Old English · noun
setl
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine / neuter
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /setl/
- Syllables
- setl (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- sittingseldresidencesettlesetting
Meaning
-
sitting, residence
-
seat, bench, throne
An. DCC.XCVII Hēr Rōmane Leone þām papan his tungan forcurfon ⁊ his ēagan āstungon, ⁊ hine of his setle āflīemdon, ⁊ þā sōna eft, Gode fultomiendum, hē meahte ġesēon ⁊ sprēcan ⁊ eft was papa swā hē ǣr wæs.
Year 797 In this year the Romans cut out the tongue of Pope Leo [III] and gouged out his eyes and drove him from his throne. And soon, through God's help, he was able to see and speak again, and became pope again just like he was.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -
setting (of sun etc.)
Declension
All forms (7)
Etymology
From a merger of two nouns of similar meaning, which came to be pronounced the same in West Saxon because of a sound change whereby -þl and -þm became -tl and -tm in some words (cf. botl, botm): * Proto-West Germanic *seþl * Proto-West Germanic *setl, from Proto-Germanic *setlaz.
Descendants
seld, settle
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