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sele.

Happiness, fortune.

4 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/siːl/
  1. Happiness, fortune.

    countable · dialectal · obsolete · uncountable
  2. The right time or occasion for something, an opportune moment, season

    UK · countable · dialectal · obsolete · uncountable
  3. Greeting, salutation.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *sēliz Proto-Indo-European *-yos Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *sālī Old English sǣl Middle English sel English sele Inherited from Middle English sel (“fortune, bliss; a unit of time”), from Old English sǣl (“time, occasion, an opportune time, opportunity, happiness, prosperity, good times”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālī, from Proto-Germanic *sēliz. Related to silly.

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