sæl

• IPA^(key): /sɛːl/, [sɛːˀl]

From Old Norse selr (“seal”).

sæl c (singular definite sælen, plural indefinite sæler)

1. seal (Phocidae)

• sælhund c

• Sjælland
• sælskind (sealskin)

• søløve

From Norwegian sel

sæl n (singular definite sælet, plural indefinite sæl)

1. (Norway) shed on a mountain pasture

• Norwegian Bokmål: sel

• IPA^(key): /sail̥/, [sai̯ːɬ]
• Rhymes: -aiːl

sæl

1. hi, hello (to a female or a mixed male/female group)

• sæll

• læs

From Old Norse sæll.

• IPA^(key): /seːl/, /sæːl/

sæl (neuter sælt, definite singular and plural sæle, comparative sælare, indefinite superlative sælast, definite superlative sælaste)

1. happy, joyful
2. satisfied
   • 1866, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Storegut, page 32:

     „D’er godt at faa,“ so sagde tidt han Fa’r,
     „ei unger Kone og ein gamal Gard.
     D’er lett med desse tvo at liva vel;
     og Skam faa den, som ei med det er sæl.“

     “It’s good to have”, father often said,
     “a young wife and an old farm.
     With these two it is easy to live well;
     and shame on him who is not satisfied with that.”

3. blessed

• ussel
• usæl
• salig

• “sæl” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *sal, from Proto-Germanic *salą. Cognate with Old High German sal, German Saal (“hall, large room”), Old Saxon sal, Dutch zaal. Compare sele, from a Germanic variant stem.

• sel

• IPA^(key): /sæl/

sæl n (nominative plural salu)

1. room, great hall, (large) house, castle
   • Wuna salu sinchroden.

     By custom, ornately decorated halls.

• burgsæl (“city-hall, house”)
• folcsæl (“folk-hall”)
• hornsæl (“house with gables”)
• sælþ (“dwelling, house”)
• wīnsæl (“wine-hall”)

• sele

• Middle English: sal, sale, sall

From Proto-West Germanic *sāli, from Proto-Germanic *sēliz.

• IPA^(key): /sæːl/

sǣl m or f

1. happiness, prosperity
2. (proper) occasion, time; season, opportunity, condition, position
   • Ðās wyrte man mæg niman on ǣlcne sǣl.

     This plant may be gathered at any time.

     (Lchdm. i. 112, 3.)

Masculine

Feminine

• sǣlan (“to take place, happen; to tie, bind, fetter, fasten: curb, restrain, confine”)
• sǣlig (“happy, prosperous”)
• sǣlige (“happily”)
• sǣliglic (“happy, blessed, fortunate”)
• sǣliglīce (“happily, blessedly, fortunately”)
• sǣlignes (“happiness”)
• sǣlþ, sȳlþ (“happiness, prosperity, blessing”)
• sǣlwang (“fertile plain”)

• Middle English: sele, cele, seel, sel
  • English: sele, seel
  • Scots: seil

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) “sæl”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sæl”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.