Seleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /siːl/
• Homophone: seal
• 韻: -iːl

名詞

sele (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 seles)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) Happiness, fortune.
2. (obsolete or dialectal, Britain) The right time or occasion for something, an opportune moment, season
3. greeting, salutation
   • 1862, George Borrow, chapter XXXV, in Wild Wales Its People‚ Language and Scenery‎^[1] (Fiction), Read Central:

     I found my friend honest Pritchard smoking his morning pipe at the front door, and after giving him the sele of the day, […]

   • 1897, William Morris, chapter XIV, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles‎^[2] (Fantasy), published 2005, page 245:

     When the morning was come […] so she arose and thrust her grief back into her heart, and gave her fellow-farer the sele of the day, […]

派生語

• haysel (“hay season”)

関連する語

• silly

アナグラム

• EELS, ELEs, Else, Lees, Slee, eels, else, l'ees, lees, lese, seel

語源

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-, 古期英語 sæl (“great hall, (large) house, castle”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.le/

名詞

sele m (nominative 複数形 selas)

1. 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)
2. tabernacle, gesele

語形変化

派生語

• bānsele (“body (bone-house)”)
• bēagsel, bēagsele (“hall in which rings are distributed”)
• bēorsele (“beer-hall, banqueting hall”)
• burgsele (“castle-hall, house”)
• burnsele (“bath-house”)
• dēaþsele (“death-hall, hell”)
• drēorsele (“dreary hall”)
• dryhtsele (“princely hall”)
• eorþsele (“cave-dwelling”)
• gesele (“tabernacle”)
• goldsele (“hall in which gold is distributed”)
• gæstsele (“guest-hall”)
• grundsele (“abysmal dwelling”)
• gūþsele (“hall of warriors”)
• hēahsele (“high hall”)
• hornsele (“house with gables”)
• hringsele (“hall in which rings are bestowed”)
• hrōfsele (“roofed hall”)
• nīþsele (“hall of conflict”)
• seledrēam (“hall-joy, festivity”)
• seleful (“hall-goblet”)
• seleġesċēot, selesċot (“tabernaculum, tent, lodging-place, nest”) (German Geschoss)
• selegyst (“hall-guest”)
• selerǣdend (“hall ruler または possessor”)
• selerest (“bed in hall”)
• selesecg (“retainer”)
• seleþegn (“hall-thane, retainer, attendant”)
• seleweard (“hall-warden”)
• þacsele, þæcsele (“a building with a thatched roof”)
• willsele (“pleasant dwelling”)
• wyrmsele (“hall of serpents, hell”)

関連する語

• sæl

派生した語

• Middle English: *sele
  • ⇒ Middle English: wunsele

参照

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