sele
noun/siːl/
Etymology 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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Greeting, salutation.
- I found my friend honest Pritchard smoking his morning pipe at the front door, and after giving him the sele of the day, […]1862, George Borrow, chapter XXXV, in Wild Wales Its People‚ Language and Scenery (Fiction), Read Central, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2013:
- 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, […]1897, William Morris, chapter XIV, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), published 2005, page 245:
- Related terms
- silly