seelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English sel, sele, from 古期英語 *sǣle (“good, fortunate, happy”) (attested in 古期英語 unsǣle (“evil, wicked”)), from Proto-Germanic *sēliz (“good, happy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *sēl- (“to calm, quiet, be favourable”). Cognate with Danish sæl (“blissful”), Swedish säll (“blissful”), Icelandic sæll (“blissful”), Gothic �������� (sēls, “good, kind, useful”), Latin sōlor (“to comfort, console”).

形容詞

seel (comparative more seel, superlative most seel)

1. (obsolete) Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.

語源 2

From Middle English sele, sel, from 古期英語 sǣl (“time, occasion, a fit time, season, opportunity, the definite time at which an event should take place, time as in bad または good times, circumstances, condition, position, happiness, joy, good fortune, good time, prosperity”), from Proto-Germanic *sēliz (“luck, joy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *sēl- (“to calm, quiet, be favourable”). Cognate with Icelandic sæla (“bliss”), Dutch zalig (“blissful, blessed”). More at silly.

別の表記

• seal

名詞

seel (複数形 seels)

1. (UK, dialectal) Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
2. (UK, dialectal) Opportunity; time; season.

   the seel of the day

派生語

• barley-seel
• hay-seel

語源 3

From Middle English silen, from Old French siller, ciller (“to sew up the eyelids of, hoodwink, wink”), from cil (“eyelid”), from Latin cilium (“eyelid, eyelash”).

動詞

seel (三人称単数 現在形 seels, 現在分詞 seeling, 過去形および過去分詞形 seeled)

1. (falconry) To sew together the eyes of a young hawk.
   • 1651, William Davenant, Gondibert

     Hey who does blindly soar at Rhodalind […]
     Mounts, like seel'd doves, still higher […]

2. (by extension) To blind.

語源 4

Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *sīgan (“to drop”). Compare Low German sielen (“to lead off water”), French siller (“to run ahead, to make headway”), and English sile (他動詞 verb).

動詞

seel (三人称単数 現在形 seels, 現在分詞 seeling, 過去形および過去分詞形 seeled)

1. (intransitive, obsolete, of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm.
   • c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, Observations on the Navy and Sea Service

     when a Ship seels or rowls in foul Weather

名詞

seel (複数形 seels)

1. (obsolete) The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.
   • 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], OCLC 1203213428:

     The ship hulls as the billows flow; / And all aboard at ev'ry seel, / Like drunkards, on the hatches reel.

参照

• seel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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